academia?

This is not a purely academic demographic query. The project that my son is working on centers around student productivity.

- If you are a student, how much time do you spend per week or day studying?

- How do you stay on top of your assignments?

- If you work (or have some other heavy time commitment, like playing a sport or being in a band), how do you juggle your schedule?

If you're a professor or grad assistant, recent student or parent, your insights would be appreciated as well.



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I was never a studier though. Never took notes.

With the kids we do project based stuff so its not really studying per se. They get involved in a project (or projects really) and will commit as much time during the day as their interest can manage. Deadlines are really self imposed (unless its an outside thing) and so they could be dedicating days on end to something sunrise to sunset, or just working on it a little at a time, some days not at all.

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

doing an MA f/t, but I also work p/t and work on other projects here & there (writing, radio, consulting)

I am only in official lectures/seminars about 10hrs a week but I go to as many additional lectures/events as possible. Then say another 10hrs a week doing official studying (set texts, etc), but at least as much time immersed in additional reading/researching. I only just started though so I know the workload will get heavier.

>doing an MA f/t, but I also work p/t and work on other
>projects here & there (writing, radio, consulting)

>I am only in official lectures/seminars about 10hrs a week but
>I go to as many additional lectures/events as possible. Then
>say another 10hrs a week doing official studying (set texts,
>etc), but at least as much time immersed in additional
>reading/researching. I only just started though so I know the
>workload will get heavier.

this thing may be helpful for you, eventually although, for now, its geared toward undergrads.


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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

>academia?
>
>This is not a purely academic demographic query. The project
>that my son is working on centers around student productivity.
>
>
>- If you are a student, how much time do you spend per week or
>day studying?
>
>- How do you stay on top of your assignments?
>
>- If you work (or have some other heavy time commitment, like
>playing a sport or being in a band), how do you juggle your
>schedule?
>
>If you're a professor or grad assistant, recent student or
>parent, your insights would be appreciated as well.

as a former adjunct and possibly going back...it wasn't easy managing both class teaching and working a full time job (because we all know adjuncts don't get paid much at all)....

For me, I treated it like I did when I was a full time public school teacher: I worked on lessons/my course(s) daily, at least a few hours a day minimum.

Since I taught as an adjunct once a week, usually on the weekends, once I got into the a manageable schedule with the full time teaching and adjunct work, it wasn't so bad.

Get Out the Room
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/get-out-the-room/id525657893

Some of y'all need this in your life: http://www.psychology.com

>>academia?
>>
>>This is not a purely academic demographic query. The project
>>that my son is working on centers around student
>productivity.
>>
>>
>>- If you are a student, how much time do you spend per week
>or
>>day studying?
>>
>>- How do you stay on top of your assignments?
>>
>>- If you work (or have some other heavy time commitment,
>like
>>playing a sport or being in a band), how do you juggle your
>>schedule?
>>
>>If you're a professor or grad assistant, recent student or
>>parent, your insights would be appreciated as well.
>
>as a former adjunct and possibly going back...it wasn't easy
>managing both class teaching and working a full time job
>(because we all know adjuncts don't get paid much at all)....
>
>For me, I treated it like I did when I was a full time public
>school teacher: I worked on lessons/my course(s) daily, at
>least a few hours a day minimum.
>
>Since I taught as an adjunct once a week, usually on the
>weekends, once I got into the a manageable schedule with the
>full time teaching and adjunct work, it wasn't so bad.

being an adjunct sounds very cool. at the same time, seems like a lot of work and responsibility to pick up.





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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

>academia?
>
>This is not a purely academic demographic query. The project
>that my son is working on centers around student productivity.
>
>
>- If you are a student, how much time do you spend per week or
>day studying?

I spend about 25-30 hours per week reading for my own classes, reading stuff related to my dissertation or discipline, and materials for my classes/grading papers/meeting with students.


>- How do you stay on top of your assignments?

I create a reading/writing schedule for each semester and stick to it. No excuses. I also work closely with one my classmates. We'll read a text every week and then talk on the phone about it prior to that weeks class. It helps flesh out ideas. We also take turns outlining the readings for each other.
>
>- If you work (or have some other heavy time commitment, like
>playing a sport or being in a band), how do you juggle your
>schedule?

I do most of my work early in the morning and late at night. My husband is great. He fixes the kids breakfast and gets the off to school so I can work. I also use my office hours to get a lot of my own work done.

>If you're a professor or grad assistant, recent student or
>parent, your insights would be appreciated as well.

The main problem I see with my students is that they have poor study and time management skills. They also don't use their resources like office hours, campus writing center, the library, and study groups.

>>academia?
>>
>>This is not a purely academic demographic query. The project
>>that my son is working on centers around student
>productivity.
>>
>>
>>- If you are a student, how much time do you spend per week
>or
>>day studying?
>
>I spend about 25-30 hours per week reading for my own classes,
>reading stuff related to my dissertation or discipline, and
>materials for my classes/grading papers/meeting with
>students.

did you have a mentor or someone who prepped you on how to balance being student AND teacher?

>>- How do you stay on top of your assignments?
>
>I create a reading/writing schedule for each semester and
>stick to it. No excuses. I also work closely with one my
>classmates. We'll read a text every week and then talk on the
>phone about it prior to that weeks class. It helps flesh out
>ideas. We also take turns outlining the readings for each
>other.

that's cool that y'all have that kind of working relationship. it sounds like it is very helpful. also, i admire your discipline. i have a lot of innate proclivities but that, plus my professional career have led me, alas, somewhat hardwired to be interrupt-driven.

consistency in any type of regimen is really hard for me.

>>
>>- If you work (or have some other heavy time commitment,
>like
>>playing a sport or being in a band), how do you juggle your
>>schedule?
>
>I do most of my work early in the morning and late at night.
>My husband is great. He fixes the kids breakfast and gets the
>off to school so I can work. I also use my office hours to get
>a lot of my own work done.

that's dope. having an understanding and helpful S.O. has got to be a major success factor.

>
>>If you're a professor or grad assistant, recent student or
>>parent, your insights would be appreciated as well.
>
>The main problem I see with my students is that they have poor
>study and time management skills. They also don't use their
>resources like office hours, campus writing center, the
>library, and study groups.

:-D

that's something we're trying to address.

what, in your opinion, gets students to 'get it' in terms of availing themselves of those additional resources? being in trouble? constant reminders? or is it pretty cut and dry that some will and some won't, regardless of external motivations?


peace & blessings,

x.

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

Once I get something I don't have trouble with it

But I may have to stare at text for an hour and ask for help on the learnmath subreddit

On a journey for enlightenment.

thanks for that.

you ever have issues staying up w/ your assignments and not having conflicts?


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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

Just started a new fulltime job
Everything has conflict
You just have to know how to manage it

On a journey for enlightenment.

Grad Student-2 classes a week, study the off days perhaps 3 hours. I take notes from the reading because I am a heavy visual learner and I also take advantage of office hours.

Its just my husband and I so thats not a huge load but my volunteering has been cut back tremendously (I miss my R.O.P girls)


As a sometime instructor at a community college and a part of a admin. team at small charter institution, the biggest issue I see facing students (children and adults) are poor organization and time management, lack of preparation in previous institutions and disinterest.

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>As a sometime instructor at a community college and a part of
>a admin. team at small charter institution, the biggest issue
>I see facing students (children and adults) are poor
>organization and time management, lack of preparation in
>previous institutions and disinterest.

Have you seen this? Had me all choked up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/nyregion/community-college-students-face-a-very-long-road-to-graduation.html

Even thought it's nothing new, to see it all laid out out like that in detail is so sad.

Ugh just makes me think about the years I spent wondering where I had gone wrong because my first university experience was unsuccessful, and didn't realise the support systems that were in place for my peers. Despite the fact that I feel enormously privileged in many ways, I simply didn't understand how to navigate the system. And so much more difficult for many people I grew up with, it's just no wonder really.

i did well in undergrad but i didn't make the most of it due to not knowing more of what was available to me.

i blame myself, but i also blame my department/school. esp considering how much my tuition was at the time, that shit should have been all up in face like, "APPLY BITCH!"

>Grad Student-2 classes a week, study the off days perhaps 3
>hours. I take notes from the reading because I am a heavy
>visual learner and I also take advantage of office hours.

does being a heavy visual learner impact the ways you stay on top of deliverables and due dates?

>Its just my husband and I so thats not a huge load but my
>volunteering has been cut back tremendously (I miss my R.O.P
>girls)

i hate when rl cuts into time for volunteering, community, etc.

>As a sometime instructor at a community college and a part of
>a admin. team at small charter institution, the biggest issue
>I see facing students (children and adults) are poor
>organization and time management, lack of preparation in
>previous institutions and disinterest.

thanks. this project aims to help (hopefully significantly) with the former. the latter is another matter.

how do you communicate course requirements, deadlines, etc., to your students? and how do they respond?


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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

>does being a heavy visual learner impact the ways you stay on
>top of deliverables and due dates?

Yes multi hued highlighters/markers are my friends. I have a huge dry erase calendar in my home office (did I mention I have a bizness but its dribbles here and there LOL) and I track due dates assignments meetings etc. I also have a fancy ass smart phone that syncs with my google calendar.

>>Its just my husband and I so thats not a huge load but my
>>volunteering has been cut back tremendously (I miss my R.O.P
>>girls)
>
>i hate when rl cuts into time for volunteering, community,
>etc.
>
>>As a sometime instructor at a community college and a part
>of
>>a admin. team at small charter institution, the biggest
>issue
>>I see facing students (children and adults) are poor
>>organization and time management, lack of preparation in
>>previous institutions and disinterest.
>
>thanks. this project aims to help (hopefully significantly)
>with the former. the latter is another matter.
>
>how do you communicate course requirements, deadlines, etc.,
>to your students? and how do they respond?

I havent taught in a while (just no time) but when I did, my deadlines had a little bit of wiggle room but not much. My syllabus I had bold face type for important items and I used the 2 and 2 method. 2 weeks before due and 2 days before due. I wrote things on the board and sent out reminder emails. I probably was coddling them because of BLACK reasons LOL.

Some really appreciated it some didnt at their grade reflected as such. I got called a bitch a few times but meh...


>
>peace & blessings,
>
>x.
>
>www.twitter.com/poetx
>
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>I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
>focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
>
>not having much to show for it. (c) mad


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real love is real scary
Money only pays the rent
Love is forever
That's all your life
Love is heaven sent
It's glamorous

I should prolly be reading now, but I'm about to take a nap. lolsmh This weekend at work was busy as hell. And I snuck in some homework last night as well. Trying to stay on top of all the reading, assignments, and deadlines has been my biggest struggle this time around.

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Just tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have...

complicates all of that. my kids struggle with that, and we've had to help them w/ the prioritization.


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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

- I definitely spent more time studying in grad school than undergrad. I just didn't really care much about gpa or grades and was a huge procrastinator. Also was involved in a few on campus clubs. Grad school I was in the library every night sometimes until close while working FT and then doing more work/studying at home.

- Stayed on top of assignments with a planner. I'm sure kids now moreso use their phone calendars but I prefer to write things down.

- In undergrad I had FT classes, worked a PT job (on campus) and volunteered with our athletics dept. Just a lot of late nights but it was easy b/c everybody was up late doing the same thing.

- Grad school I worked FT, took 2-3 classes a semester, & my internship (which was about 15-20 hours a week). My weekends weren't much of my own and again, lots and lots of library time. Sorry study wise if I got out of class at like 7 I'd be in the library til midnight 2-3 nights a week)

**from what I see now with students time management is even worse than when I finished. Like with everything, not just academics, but being involved in student orgs I'd say MAYBE 20% of things are well planned out and I'm saying 2 weeks or more. A huge part of it is deadlines being extended, even with financial aid or adding/dropping classes, there's just no sense of urgency

>- If you are a student, how much time do you spend per week or
>day studying?

Its hard to say bc I work full time and go to school full time,
so if im not doing one, Im doing the other

>- How do you stay on top of your assignments?
>

I use an actual planner, and an app on my phone

>- If you work (or have some other heavy time commitment, like
>playing a sport or being in a band), how do you juggle your
>schedule?
>

By taking my laptop everywhere with me lol
and designating certain subjects
for certain days, weekends are for catching up on
anything i missed for work during the week.
my job schedule is very flexible, so that helps

>academia?
>
>This is not a purely academic demographic query. The project
>that my son is working on centers around student productivity.
>
>

as a professor due to my background in education.

Student productivity is fun in this new era so let's talk about it.

>- If you are a student, how much time do you spend per week or
>day studying?

Roughly 28 hours a week.
>
>- How do you stay on top of your assignments?

I've got automated Gmail reminders through IFTTT. As a matter of fact IFTTT is my go to for productivity automation.

I instantly set up reminders for all assignments after getting the syllabus. All projects are broken two deadlines: early deadline and procrastination. I use 20 reminders for each spread throughout the week. It's my way of annoying myself into doing the work.
>
>- If you work (or have some other heavy time commitment, like
>playing a sport or being in a band), how do you juggle your
>schedule?

I do two hours of studying in the morning and two before or after work.

>
>If you're a professor or grad assistant, recent student or
>parent, your insights would be appreciated as well.

These new students have NO EXCUSES other being lazy as shit, no offense. I take notes in class and send them to myself in an email. IFTTT then notices the email meets certain criteria and makes new google document with the class title and date of the notes. I then take those notes and record them out loud, sync that to the cloud/smartphones and listen to them before bed.

I wish I had the option of syncing my hand notes to the cloud so I wouldn't have to carry about notebooks. Fuck writing by hand by the way as a student. Ditto for taking notes in lectures when you can record the audio and have it to sync to the cloud. I wish we had ebooks that allowed us to annotate them and avoid carrying a book to class.

>>
>>- How do you stay on top of your assignments?
>
>I've got automated Gmail reminders through IFTTT. As a matter
>of fact IFTTT is my go to for productivity automation.
>
>I instantly set up reminders for all assignments after getting
>the syllabus. All projects are broken two deadlines: early
>deadline and procrastination. I use 20 reminders for each
>spread throughout the week. It's my way of annoying myself
>into doing the work.
>

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

Here are some useful recipes to start off most people:

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/35-super-useful-ifttt-recipes-you-might-not-know-about.html

http://recombu.com/mobile/article/best-ifttt-recipes-ios-android-simplify-your-life_M20501.html

http://alliworthington.com/productivity-ifttt/

I use one recipe that logs my study/work hours to a google spreadsheet in order to track productivity across weeks. If I'm in a library and don't feel like checking out a book but need useful info I'll scan the text into my phone and have it send that to evernote.

All of this is done in the background. The service has a channel for Android so y'all can take advantage of that.

https://ifttt.com

prolly save you a grip of time. we about 2 weeks (hopefully) from launching.

>>academia?
>>
>>This is not a purely academic demographic query. The project
>>that my son is working on centers around student
>productivity.
>>
>>
>
>as a professor due to my background in education.
>
>Student productivity is fun in this new era so let's talk
>about it.
>
>>- If you are a student, how much time do you spend per week
>or
>>day studying?
>
>Roughly 28 hours a week.
>>
>>- How do you stay on top of your assignments?
>
>I've got automated Gmail reminders through IFTTT. As a matter
>of fact IFTTT is my go to for productivity automation.
>
>I instantly set up reminders for all assignments after getting
>the syllabus. All projects are broken two deadlines: early
>deadline and procrastination. I use 20 reminders for each
>spread throughout the week. It's my way of annoying myself
>into doing the work

very cool. i used IFTTT too, but not for this.

>>- If you work (or have some other heavy time commitment,
>like
>>playing a sport or being in a band), how do you juggle your
>>schedule?
>
>I do two hours of studying in the morning and two before or
>after work.
>
>>
>>If you're a professor or grad assistant, recent student or
>>parent, your insights would be appreciated as well.
>
>These new students have NO EXCUSES other being lazy as shit,
>no offense. I take notes in class and send them to myself in
>an email. IFTTT then notices the email meets certain criteria
>and makes new google document with the class title and date of
>the notes. I then take those notes and record them out loud,
>sync that to the cloud/smartphones and listen to them before
>bed.

there are a lot of potential solutions out there. from my research (and my son's) you have to kind of cobble together different things together. but you're right. if you do the work and fully utilize the stuff that everyone has available to them, upfront, it should be very possible for ppl to stay up on all of this.


>
>I wish I had the option of syncing my hand notes to the cloud
>so I wouldn't have to carry about notebooks. Fuck writing by
>hand by the way as a student. Ditto for taking notes in
>lectures when you can record the audio and have it to sync to
>the cloud. I wish we had ebooks that allowed us to annotate
>them and avoid carrying a book to class.

interesting view. that would be dope to auto sync handwritten notes. (there's a pen that does this, somewhat). this is where we start to diverge, however, because some folks prefer the handwriting aspect as 'encoding' for their brain and it helps them retain more. i'm perfectly fine w/ typing all my notes (in a business setting as i'm not in school, but if i have important client meetings or, every once in a while, taking a class or something).

but there are apparently still a lot of profs who don't like technology in the rooms.


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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

because i didn't have a traditional work load, i had to make it work around my life and what our schedule was. we also only had one car so it was pretty tricky the first year.

i basically stacked all my classes so that they were grouped up on the same days, like two m/w classes and one friday class, and then i'd use t/th/f to have the entire day in my studio. you really have to be self directed in the studio. in order to keep from being distracted, i tried to do everything in my studio. ate lunch, read books, studied, slept, etc.

i would do all of this btw the hours of 8:30/9 - 6/7 (when he got off work and could pick me up)

this routine really helped me accomplish a lot without letting my personal life suffer. i still try to maintain that now, esp since i currently have a studio. it helps with juggling the little one. i can't really work at home, too many distractions. when he goes to sleep i can sometimes squeeze in a bit of work.

honestly don't even know how i'm doing as well as I am. lol

>- If you are a student, how much time do you spend per week or
>day studying?

like 1 to 4 hrs per day depending upon what was needed


>
>- How do you stay on top of your assignments?

my memory.
but i also jot down notes about whatever the prof said in class about the assignments.
being a math major most assignments needed to be turned around in a couple days so it wasn't like i had weeks to forget about them.


>- If you work (or have some other heavy time commitment, like
>playing a sport or being in a band), how do you juggle your
>schedule?

prioritize:
1. whichever client pays the most
2. which deadline is due first
3. which task is easiest

i usually get to pick two of the three

my life now is a continual masters degree thesis
i essentially write thesises all day

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The learning in college takes place in the classroom. When I went to college it helped me tremendously to have a dialogue with a professor. Having come from a catholic school background it was so amazing to be able to preset my side and hear a professor's take on it. It helped my development as a student and it is an approach that I use with the students I work with now.

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad