The End is Near

So the end of the semester is drawing near, and I have been filling out applications for jobs like no other for the summer. As part of one of the applications I had to explain my experiences with multi-tasking. Ummmm.... I literally laughed out loud. I thought about simply writing "graduate student" to accurately answer the question. How do you explain to someone that by simply being a student, you have learned to master the art of multi-tasking? Just this afternoon, I sit on my couch, taking a quiz for an online class, tv on, cell phone beside me, facebook chat open, and simultaneously reading an article from an online journal. I think that technology has forced a new generation into being great at multi-tasking. Stimuli are needed at all times and because of that, we (Generation X) do multitask. Now the argument can be made at whether this is truly PRODUCTIVE multitasking, but at some level it is. By mixing personal and professional lives, one can accomplish a great deal. And how, pretell, do I, personally keep everything straight? It's not some fancy online schedule, no palm-pilot type planner.

A list.
Yes, that's right. Nothing is more refreshing than taking out a blank piece of paper and writing down my goals. It can be as narrow or broad as I want it to be. Sometimes they are lists for the day, week. Currently mine is everything to do before the end of the semester (yay!). Through all this technology, I know of one thing that will never fail me, and that is my list of accomplishments. Something about that sense of fulfillment when you get to cross something off that you've completed. Call me old-fashioned. But I don't care. A list has done me good so far, and I think the lists will stay.