Weekend Links: Don’t Love Your Work, Gain Weight, and Stop Multi-Tasking…
Links December 21st. 2007, 7:19pmInteresting links from around the web to help you through your weekend Study Hacks withdrawal…
A Stocking Full of Holiday Productivity
- Bad career advice: Do what you love | Brazen Careerist
Penelope slams a cherished piece of career advice. And I couldn’t agree more. Worried about post-graduation? Read this… - When Are You Happiest? | Scott Young
Scott Young asks his readers to report when they feel most happy. The answers might surprise you… - How I Gained 5
50lbs in One Week | I Will Teach You To Be Rich
Ramit ruminates on his recent efforts to gain weight. In doing so, he derives some powerful insights on how to actually achieve goals (hint: don’t sweat the small stuff). - GTD Mastery 100: Step 5 | GearFire
Chris over at GearFire explains his souped up Gmail configuration which he uses to run his GTD universe. As a strong believer in the “GTD in e-mail” school of productivity thought, I’m dutifully impressed. - Learn to Recognize When Multitasking Goes Too Far | Employee Evolution
Ryan Paugh provides a good, link-rich summary of everything we now know to be bad about multitasking. - Academic Writer’s Block | Ask MetaFilter
The hivemind over at MetaFilter has been tackling the challenge of overcoming writers block when working on a paper. Though the thread was motivated by someone sweating their dissertation, the advice is applicable to any student facing a blank screen.
December 22nd, 2007 at 5:39 am
I have a question slightly off topic
I am currently in the position where my semester ended…and let’s say my final exams brought my gpa down abysmally, and I’ve gone through the five stages of grief about my performance.
How do you make lemonade from lemons to improve your performance for the new semester? I would love to start afresh, but yet my worries about summer internships and my chances at future opportunities mentally set me back.
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Thanks for the link love, Cal. Don’t hesitate some more great ideas my way for a link from my site.
Cheers and happy holidays!
-Scott
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Oh, and I think Ramit gained 5lbs, not 50…
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Scott:
Good catch! Not even Ramit could find a way to gain 50 lbs in a week.
Tiffany:
A good exercise after a bad exam period is to go back and figure out, in detail, how you could of studied for the exams (and handled assignments during the term) in such a way that you would have done better. Use this information to help devise a new and improved system for the new semester. My best exam scores usually came after doing poorly on a previous exam for exactly this reason!
December 24th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
@Cal: don’t forgot that you’ve gotta get started early on internships. If Tiffany’s tanked on this most recent semester, she won’t be able to do anything to present herself for the internships.
@Tiffany: The best thing that you can do at this point is market yourself well. A good cover letter and getting your resume in early is the best you can do. Any internship that’s worth its salt should prefer candidates’ passion and determination over grades. Convey that in your cover letter and interview, and you should have no trouble nailing the internship you want.
December 28th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Kelly:
Good call on the internships. Start early and do your homework on your opportunities: the personal touch, as Kelly notes, can be more important than your GPA.