Increasing productivity at school
Introduction date - 9th of January 2008
Basic ideas
Increase the productivity during the hours I spend in school. Specifically, I won't leave the school unless all my homework is done.
Goal
Put the hours I spend in school to better use. Adapt a new habit if positive.
Updates
Introduction
I spend in school an average of seven hours per day, not counting weekends. At least half of the time I spend on breaks, bored or listening to what I already know. Not to mention listening to things I'm totally not interested in like every geography class ;). I think about putting this time into better use - doing homework. As a backup for my motivation, I'll set a rule that I don't leave the school unless all homework is done except for longer projects like essays, which aren't too frequent. Studying for exams doesn't count, because I don't study for exams.
I will make my homework at breaks, not important lessons and, if there's any left, after lessons in the library. I have a 1h 30 min gap between lessons at Tuesday and 50 min gap at Thursday. That's more than enough so I'll take my mp3 player to waste rest of time..
I think it's a great idea. It teaches self-discipline,
productivity and saves time. I'll have more of it to take care of
competitions and studying HTML.
I expect the homework to be done faster at school than at home,
where I procrastinate and easily get distracted. Blabbing teacher or
blabbing fellow students (depends whether a lesson or a break)
should be less of a disturbance. Of course, I'll reach the peak
motivation at the library.
If there are any problems., I'll write about them. I expect it to go smoothly though. We don't get too much homework in my school. At least half of it is Math. The biggest part of doing homework always was to finally get myself to work. From there, it went quick.