Feel like I'm drowning! How to organise myself?

[ringmaster]

I'm chasing my tail constantly, meeting deadlines on the day they occur and at the last minute - rarely reading the buggers before I hand them in (on Monday I was still typing at 3pm, with the deadline at 3.30pm!).

The house is falling apart (I'm buying new undies as I can't find any clear buggers!) I'm sure the kids don't recognise me and I'm fed up!

Other than listen to me moan, there's little you can do but does anyone have the key to organisation?

Cheers

Jess

nope. sorry i only have one child and i'm up the walls too. house a mess, handing in things with one minute to go, it's crazy isn't it? sometimes i thrive on the madness, sometimes i just wanna run away to a desert island . what are you studying? do you have a dh to help out more?

make yourself a proper timetable. work out the total hours you have available for independent study (taking into account all the other bits in your life)and when those hours are. get a calendar/diary and mark it accordingly. add any classes/lectures work to the calendar. now you've got something weekly that might look like

Mon: lectures 10-12. study 1-3. kids 3-8. study 9-10. etc. throughout the week

now work out what proportion of your study time you should allocate to each aspect of your course - factoring in what proportion of your final score it represents. allocate your chunks of study time accordingly. obviously you need to take into account deadlines - but if these are reasonably evenly distributed, and if you distribute your work fairly, you should be able to match up work and deadlines.

so now you're getting to

Mon: lectures 10-12; reading for history of frogs 1-3; kids 3-8; reading for history of playing cards 9-10.

Tue: essay writing for history of frogs 10-12; lectures 1-3; kids 3-8;

etc

once you have this schedule it should scare the pants off you. it will make you realise that you only have 4 hours a week to spend on frogs; once this has sunk in you know you have no choice but to stick to your schedule.

It worked for me. I did it at the beginning of term and stuck to it pretty much for a whole year.

ringmaster it is hard!!!!

I am one of the most organised people ever, and only go to college 3 days a week. I am making 5 packed lunches the night before, organising dionner( normally a slow cooker dinner) before I go to college.

House seems to be falling apart spent w/end chasing my tale. I too have many essays etc to write and am up till stupid o clock trying to get everything done. DH is self wmployed and does help when he's here but we can never tell where he is going to be and at what time on a day