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A story about an international student trying to participate in all extracurricular activities, but ends up struggling with time management and dedicating enough time to finishing tasks. <\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"70044ca1-9d8d-459e-a8b7-37d0a471b526"},"title":"Multi-Tasker? More Like \u201cMulti-Failer\u201d by Hidaya Patel"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

The desire to try everything out and participate in all activities is admirable but can be a huge pain when lacking time management. As an international student, I was instilled with immense dedication to participate in all activities and events and run for every position open in campus clubs. I loved planning to do 7-8 tasks a day and, in the end, not complete either of them. Well, as ambitious as it sounds, without time management, it's all a waste. I did complete my goal of participating in everything and exploring all activities, but the aftermath was terrible. I found a part-time job too. And honestly, I can get a Guinness world record for being the worst at time management. Balancing academics and co-curricular activities in addition to a part-time job became a nightmare to me. I couldn\u2019t manage my time evenly and often lagged in my academics. I found it very difficult to cope with the syllabus as I was always sleepy during lectures as all my energy would be drained in my job and events. Although I enjoyed being in the limelight very much, I could definitely see my academic status falling. I didn't even have the time to cover whatever was taught in the lecture during the weekends. I felt despondent and blamed myself for not understanding the material, eventually leading myself to feel dumb.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"50833159-49b6-4b21-bfe0-67a6b60b21c9"},"title":"The Wicked Problem"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

I partially overcame the problem as it was too tiring and stressful not to be able to cope with my studies and have to ask friends for help in assignments constantly. This all happened in my first semester. Around the third month in my first semester, I thought to myself, what is the point of enjoying everything else if my primary goal to achieve academic success is not fulfilled. After lots of thinking and making charts to understand where I was going wrong, I realized that I never gave myself the time to be free and relaxed enough to focus on my academics. The biggest challenge of my life was time management. To be completely honest, I still am not entirely over this problem, but I am way better than before. After that night, I made a to-do list and did not overburden myself with stuff. From 7-8 tasks a day, I reduced it to just 2-3. For instance, on the days I had the job, I just focused on my lectures and nothing extra. On the remaining non-working days, I focused on academics and extras. I wasn't completely able to follow this, but my condition and mental health were way better than before, and I could see my academic progress. For anybody experiencing the same problem, please give your mental health first preference and don't tire and stress yourself out. Start with small to-do lists and try to achieve everything on your to-do list. But please start small.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"0146cb3c-aefa-456c-8b63-84f5e294ccec"},"title":"Finding a Solution"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

Trusting yourself to achieve everything is good, but being practical about it is more challenging. Having the patience to take small steps and then build them into large steps is more important than trying to do it all in the first go. As rightly said by Leo Tolstoy, \"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.\" Therefore, everything becomes fine when we just give it time. So give yourself some time, and appreciate yourself even if you achieved the smallest of all things.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"18544345-c789-4519-b494-95d3f59b767b"},"title":"Final Thoughts"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

Patel, H. (2021, October 15). Multi-Tasker? More Like \u201cMulti-Failer.\u201d<\/em> Liberated Learners. <\/span>https:\/\/wicked.liberatedlearner.ca\/learner\/multi-tasker-more-like-multi-failer\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"1f6b97fc-fe42-450b-ae4f-bb3fc41f7755"},"title":"APA Reference"}],"hTag":"h2"}

Multi-Tasker? More Like “Multi-Failer”

Liam Peart