Reading "What is Time Management?" really gave me some helpful insight on how I can manage my time better. Some of the things I already knew, but I still found the information very helpful. Ever since I started college it seems like there is not enough time in the day. When I did the time management exercise, I still had 16 hours left in the week to study. I've always had a planner to help me remember when certain assignments are due and anything else dealing with school, but actually sitting down and focusing on how long each assignment will take has become a slight issue for me. I have always had the tendency to over study which of course is not good. Now that I know the extra time I have in the week, I should be more organized with my time.

At the beginning of Randy Pausch video lecture on "Time Management" he discusses the following:
1. How t set goals
2. How to avoid wasting time
3. How to deal with your boss but in this case, how to deal with your advisor
4. How to delicate to people
5. How to deal with stress
After pointing these factors out, Randy discusses how we are bad with dealing with time, but yet good with dealing with money. He also said another statement that I fully agreed with; how is it that we are bad with time when money and time goes together? Randy mentioned that Americans are poor when it comes to dealing with time management and that we are extravagant when dealing with money as a commodity. After discussing about money and time management, he displays the following on the board:
Goals, Priorities and Planning
1. Why am I doing this? What is the goal?
2. Why will I succeed?
3. What happens if I chose not to do it?
4. Doing things right versus doing the right things
5. 100 things to do in my life
From the topics stated above, Randy mentions that some people don't know why goals are made, nor do some people know how to set them. He states that its fine to change your plan, but make sure you have a plan FIRST before changing it. He mentioned that people focus too hard on doing things the right way rather than just doing the right thing. In order to know how to do something, you have to give your time to it. Just like Randy mentioned, experience comes with time, and experience is something you cannot fake. The next part he displays on the board is about planning. Here are the following:
1. Failing to plan is planning to fail
2. Plan each day, each week, each semester
3. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one
Next, Randy mentioned about having a "To Do" List. Here are the following:
1. Break things down into small steps.
2. Do the ugliest thing first
I've never listen to any of Randy Paush's lectures before, but this one gave very good pointers on planning and managing time. Whenever I have a list of things to do, I always do the least of my favorites first, and it makes it a whole lot easier to handle everything else knowing that the least favorite has already been handled. I really enjoyed it.

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Hello, my name is Angela Smith and I am a junior majoring in elementary education. I am from Mobile and I've never lived anywhere else. I am the youngest of two girls, no brothers and my sister and myself are very close. I have a boyfriend whom I've been with for almost six years (since the eleventh grade) and he is in the National Guard. I attended Ben C. Rain High School and while I was there I became a member of the band becoming a majorette, graduating in 2008. After high school, I attended Bishop State Community College where I received my associate's degree in May of 2011. Both of my parents are college graduates and both were awarded scholarships. My sister is a real-estate agent, a certified surgical technician, and an assistant store manager at Walmart.

I chose to major in elementary education because of the love and passion I have for education. I love to learn, so therefore I want to be able to teach and show children just how important yet fun, learning is. I personally believe that its up to the teacher to make the learning process interesting and fun. True enough, there will be a child or two (possibly more) who will need that extra attention with their academics and that's okay; every child is different and everyone learns differently. I chose to attend The College of Education here at South after completing junior college because of the great things I heard from various people. I took it upon myself (and my adviser from my junior college) did some research, and enrolled. I've been attending South since last summer semester and I'm enjoying it so far.

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my first post