I have been having a really hard time trying to balance two. Working on a new schedule has me still attempting to adapt, and I still can’t quite get my phone calendar to properly alert me about the dates that I set for this classes assignments. So, my current system of trying to handle everything is now to try and check on the class website every few days to make sure that I am not late on assignments like I was at the beginning of this class. Going forward I would like to find a better way to get myself alerted about what is due, so that I am not in a constant state of anxiety about deadlines. Often when at the internship I am already so focused on EY business that school can slip my mind.
It is indeed hard to tend to both work and summer course assignments, and admittedly I have come close to not finishing assignments on time or forgetting a task. Work and training at Ogilvy move quickly, capturing most of my attention.
I can’t boast to be successful at balancing work and study (yet), but I am trying to adopt the following practices to get better at it:
– Set reminders: either through Gmail or any vendors one is familiar with.
– Observe and take notes: most of our assignments this summer is to record and report our accomplishments and difficulties, so it is best to have self-awareness in all situations. When the time comes to self-reflect, the work will have already been done.
– Keep tasks close: put your assignment tab on the bookmark bar, and put the most important tasks into notes that you will see every time you open your work laptop.
To balance my schoolwork and my internship, I’m using different tools and tactics:
– I create a tracking table for all my tasks and information about both the class and my internship on OneNote. I update and check this tracking table every day.
– I schedule the time to do school work on my Google Calendar
– I also take an hour or so every week to plan out what I need to do for the following week
– Checking in regularly with my supervisor also helps me stay on top of my tasks at work
It hasn’t been easy to balance school and work but I am trying to make some improvements within my schedule. It is really simple to forget about something being due on a certain day. I strive to check the class website at least 3-4 times a week to make sure I am up to date on when assignments are due. I also mark the due dates in my Google Calendar to keep track. Finally, I set time aside on the weekend to work on assignments. Since sometimes I tend to rest on weekends, I also set time aside during the week after work to spend at least an hour or so on my computer doing work. Overall, it hasn’t been easy working, commuting, and doing school but I’m sure it will get better soon!
The first time experiencing working 40 hours full-time internship and having summer classes can be hard. I suggest schedule everything carefully, Since working and studying together, there will be many things that need to accomplish. what I do is that I create a reminder on my phone with all the deadlines for assignments at school. By that way, I never forgot or passed the deadlines. I keep updating that reminder every day before I go to bed and check to see if there will be anything I needed to do tomorrow. That is how I balance my schoolwork and internship.
Throughout the month of June, I was honestly struggling to balance a 40 hour work week with summer classes. Initially, I tried putting everything in the calendar app on my phone, but after struggling for a few weeks to balance it all, I decided to actually hang a dry erase calendar on the wall in my room. Now that it’s the beginning of July, over the weekend I took the time to write in all assignment due dates and important work dates for the month on the calendar. I usually check the class site throughout the week, but to make sure my calendar is always up to date, I’ve set a recurring reminder on Sundays to check this site and review my work schedule for the week. I’ve found that having something that I can look at every morning when I’m getting ready for the day helps me to always be one step ahead and not get overwhelmed with anxiety when important meetings/assignments are coming up.
It was difficult in the beginning finding a way to balance school and work. I was not sure how the class was going to be set up, but after a few weeks I put all the assignment due dates in my calendar on my phone and also wrote them down in my planner. If I have some free time at work or sometimes on my lunch break I will try to do some school work or at least check the class site because usually when the weekend comes around I just want to relax and not have to think about school or work. I have also been documenting everything I am doing like projects and meetings so that doing the class assignments will be easier for me in the long run.
I am handling doing both an internship and school work pretty well. To keep myself organized I make a list of everything I have to do at the start of my day. I include both school work and internship work. The list helps to remind me of the tasks needed to get done and keep me on track. For longer-term projects, I utilize sticky notes on my desktop, and a calendar to keep my mind thinking about how to schedule it into my daily tasks.
It is hard to maintain the balance since my primary responsibility in my job is project management, there are a million little things that I need to keep track of on top of school work, One approach I found very effective is create a to-do list every day and write it down on the whiteboard at my desk so I can see clearly what needs to be done and the progress of everything.
Since I have worked around 15 hours per week and taken 18 credits with a lot of extra curriculum activities in the school year, I have adjusted and learned how to keep together.
– Google Calendar is my friend. I put everything on my calendar and assign different colors to each kind of task. For example, classes and academic-related items are blue, work is yellow, activities are red… This method helps me track the hours allocated to each category. I also sync it to my iPhone to receive notifications 10 mins prior to the event. This acts like a secretary to remind me what I have for the day and helps me countless of time when I forgot my appointments.
– At the beginning of the day, I usually go over the tasks on email and Slack and double-check with my supervisor. If I finish the task before the workday, I report and sign off with my supervisor. If it is not finished, the process repeats in the morning.
Throughout my internship so far I’ve had a hard time balancing my internship and schoolwork for several reasons. I work 40 hours a week so it”s very time consuming for me. Also my laptop has broken one week into the internship so I’ve had a hard time having access online but when I do I give it my best to put in quality work.
Ways I plan on improving it in the future:
– Purchasing a new laptop ASAP
– Setting up a recurring timeslot every week in my busy schedule to get my online work done in a timely manner
– Taking Notes of new skills, lessons, and experience I’ve gained from the internship while I’m there.
Micromanaging time is necessary esp for me as I have two part-time jobs including my internship and full-time school work. Having the work-life balance is critical. I use tools like google calendar it helps me organize my tasks and meetings. I find the inbuilt checklist feature in google calendar very helpful. I also have solid time slots allocated for school work and internship work. This approach may seem siloed but it works well as I like to that both work and school differentiated.
Time management is a great skills to have especially when you want to develop a career with time for the job and time for ourselves. By managing my schedule with a calendar is how I use my time wisely, especially during a full-time internship.
Moreover, by keeping a task lists per day to remind myself the necessary things, chores, and tasks need to be accomplished. This way I could be more efficient with my time, and developing a healthy schedule for the internship and myself.
I have been having a really hard time trying to balance two. Working on a new schedule has me still attempting to adapt, and I still can’t quite get my phone calendar to properly alert me about the dates that I set for this classes assignments. So, my current system of trying to handle everything is now to try and check on the class website every few days to make sure that I am not late on assignments like I was at the beginning of this class. Going forward I would like to find a better way to get myself alerted about what is due, so that I am not in a constant state of anxiety about deadlines. Often when at the internship I am already so focused on EY business that school can slip my mind.
It is indeed hard to tend to both work and summer course assignments, and admittedly I have come close to not finishing assignments on time or forgetting a task. Work and training at Ogilvy move quickly, capturing most of my attention.
I can’t boast to be successful at balancing work and study (yet), but I am trying to adopt the following practices to get better at it:
– Set reminders: either through Gmail or any vendors one is familiar with.
– Observe and take notes: most of our assignments this summer is to record and report our accomplishments and difficulties, so it is best to have self-awareness in all situations. When the time comes to self-reflect, the work will have already been done.
– Keep tasks close: put your assignment tab on the bookmark bar, and put the most important tasks into notes that you will see every time you open your work laptop.
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To balance my schoolwork and my internship, I’m using different tools and tactics:
– I create a tracking table for all my tasks and information about both the class and my internship on OneNote. I update and check this tracking table every day.
– I schedule the time to do school work on my Google Calendar
– I also take an hour or so every week to plan out what I need to do for the following week
– Checking in regularly with my supervisor also helps me stay on top of my tasks at work
It hasn’t been easy to balance school and work but I am trying to make some improvements within my schedule. It is really simple to forget about something being due on a certain day. I strive to check the class website at least 3-4 times a week to make sure I am up to date on when assignments are due. I also mark the due dates in my Google Calendar to keep track. Finally, I set time aside on the weekend to work on assignments. Since sometimes I tend to rest on weekends, I also set time aside during the week after work to spend at least an hour or so on my computer doing work. Overall, it hasn’t been easy working, commuting, and doing school but I’m sure it will get better soon!
The first time experiencing working 40 hours full-time internship and having summer classes can be hard. I suggest schedule everything carefully, Since working and studying together, there will be many things that need to accomplish. what I do is that I create a reminder on my phone with all the deadlines for assignments at school. By that way, I never forgot or passed the deadlines. I keep updating that reminder every day before I go to bed and check to see if there will be anything I needed to do tomorrow. That is how I balance my schoolwork and internship.
Throughout the month of June, I was honestly struggling to balance a 40 hour work week with summer classes. Initially, I tried putting everything in the calendar app on my phone, but after struggling for a few weeks to balance it all, I decided to actually hang a dry erase calendar on the wall in my room. Now that it’s the beginning of July, over the weekend I took the time to write in all assignment due dates and important work dates for the month on the calendar. I usually check the class site throughout the week, but to make sure my calendar is always up to date, I’ve set a recurring reminder on Sundays to check this site and review my work schedule for the week. I’ve found that having something that I can look at every morning when I’m getting ready for the day helps me to always be one step ahead and not get overwhelmed with anxiety when important meetings/assignments are coming up.
It was difficult in the beginning finding a way to balance school and work. I was not sure how the class was going to be set up, but after a few weeks I put all the assignment due dates in my calendar on my phone and also wrote them down in my planner. If I have some free time at work or sometimes on my lunch break I will try to do some school work or at least check the class site because usually when the weekend comes around I just want to relax and not have to think about school or work. I have also been documenting everything I am doing like projects and meetings so that doing the class assignments will be easier for me in the long run.
I am handling doing both an internship and school work pretty well. To keep myself organized I make a list of everything I have to do at the start of my day. I include both school work and internship work. The list helps to remind me of the tasks needed to get done and keep me on track. For longer-term projects, I utilize sticky notes on my desktop, and a calendar to keep my mind thinking about how to schedule it into my daily tasks.
It is hard to maintain the balance since my primary responsibility in my job is project management, there are a million little things that I need to keep track of on top of school work, One approach I found very effective is create a to-do list every day and write it down on the whiteboard at my desk so I can see clearly what needs to be done and the progress of everything.
Since I have worked around 15 hours per week and taken 18 credits with a lot of extra curriculum activities in the school year, I have adjusted and learned how to keep together.
– Google Calendar is my friend. I put everything on my calendar and assign different colors to each kind of task. For example, classes and academic-related items are blue, work is yellow, activities are red… This method helps me track the hours allocated to each category. I also sync it to my iPhone to receive notifications 10 mins prior to the event. This acts like a secretary to remind me what I have for the day and helps me countless of time when I forgot my appointments.
– At the beginning of the day, I usually go over the tasks on email and Slack and double-check with my supervisor. If I finish the task before the workday, I report and sign off with my supervisor. If it is not finished, the process repeats in the morning.
Throughout my internship so far I’ve had a hard time balancing my internship and schoolwork for several reasons. I work 40 hours a week so it”s very time consuming for me. Also my laptop has broken one week into the internship so I’ve had a hard time having access online but when I do I give it my best to put in quality work.
Ways I plan on improving it in the future:
– Purchasing a new laptop ASAP
– Setting up a recurring timeslot every week in my busy schedule to get my online work done in a timely manner
– Taking Notes of new skills, lessons, and experience I’ve gained from the internship while I’m there.
Micromanaging time is necessary esp for me as I have two part-time jobs including my internship and full-time school work. Having the work-life balance is critical. I use tools like google calendar it helps me organize my tasks and meetings. I find the inbuilt checklist feature in google calendar very helpful. I also have solid time slots allocated for school work and internship work. This approach may seem siloed but it works well as I like to that both work and school differentiated.
Time management is a great skills to have especially when you want to develop a career with time for the job and time for ourselves. By managing my schedule with a calendar is how I use my time wisely, especially during a full-time internship.
Moreover, by keeping a task lists per day to remind myself the necessary things, chores, and tasks need to be accomplished. This way I could be more efficient with my time, and developing a healthy schedule for the internship and myself.