GTD, for real this time
Friday, May 30th, 2008This long, relaxing, commitment-sparse summer is the perfect time to initiate the planning stages of Operation: Win at Law School. It’s clear that with the amount of reading, organizing, and personal responsibility law school will bring, I’ll need a “productivity system” more effective than my current version, which consists of the following steps:
- Write appointments and due dates in my planner.
- Do homework assignments when/if I get around to them, unless they’re ungraded or the grading scale is so “curved” that I’m already guaranteed an A.
- For exams, gather notes the night before. Study notes the morning of, preferably while walking to class.
- Go to class.
Step 4 is the key to the whole system. This may seem obvious, but it took me about four years to discover it. When I go to class, everything else takes care of itself, and college looks a lot like high school. So, if you’re about to enter college, take it from me: you can skip all the fancy motivational “College for Dummies” books and just GO TO CLASS. I swear, no one should ever put me in charge of an undergrad orientation. It would last about fifteen seconds.