Organization and Time Management

This week has been an exercise in getting my coordination, email, and organization skills up to snuff. Because I meet with my supervisor every other week, I get a lot of assignments at once and am left to tackle them however I see fit. The assignments I was given at my last meeting include:

• Outlining the DSG with what information to include and suggestions on how to present it.
• Drafting an article about the rapid bus system the university uses.
• Reviewing the new “blueprint for success” article diagram to be used in the next issuing of the magazine.
• Find several students at differing points in their academic career and interview them for a student profile's article accompanying the blueprint diagram.

I figured that the best way to tackle this list was to start on the more complicated tasks first, and then when I had Idle time from either waiting to hear back from people or waiting for an interview appointment to come up, I could chip away at the tasks that were less dependent on outside forces.

I'm pleased to say that so this approach has worked out pretty good. I've been juggling emails from about ten different people setting up interview times, and in between emails I've been able to start chipping away at a rapid article and an outline of the DSG.