Saturday, August 26, 2006

It's time to change my own time clock

This new semester, I have the classes beginning around 9:00am every weekday from next week. I cannot believe the summer was over. The time is passing so quickly. Unfortunately, I cannot achieve the goal I set at the beginning of this semester except auditting the class and playing tennis. I really need to push myself hard this semester.

I take two courses: network and graph, financial calculus. Also I am going to audit: real analysis, advanced stochastic process.

But my eagerest goal is to finish two projects on hand so that I can put my time into real research. For my research, I wanna to do more theoritical side than computational side.

There is something I want to get rid of. I am going to shrink my online time. It really wastes my time. To accomplish this target, first not bring my laptop into school unnecessarily, second not open computer after I get up and before I go to bed, third do not go to code unless it is worth doing, fourth don't try to read basketball information everyday especially when new NBA season begins.

At the same time there is something I am going to get used to. Since I am moving to a two bedroom apartment recently, there is a study room for me. I can study home now. Also I get a new mattress, it is so comfort that I hope I can read a paper everyday on the bed before I fall into sleep.

Hopefully, I will increase my ability to manage my time and be more productive. I am during the process of designing a weekly agenda. It needs the balance between work and life. And I am going to fill out my timesheet everyweek as I need to do as an employee. Also I would send my weekly report one day before I meet Larry with detail checklist of what I am doing during the work. I learn it from Wasu. He told me that is really efficient way. I will post the formats of my timesheet and weekly report later. And publish the result of my timesheet and the number of jobs I do every week.

In the ideal situation, this gonna to set my high expectation more likely to achieve.

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