WEEK3 3.5 Juggling Life and Learning

DATE 2016/01/20 COURSE Juggling Life and Learning

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3.5 Juggling Life and Learning

words

_ juggle_

If you juggle lots of different things, for example your work and your family, you try to give enough time or attention to all of them.

subconscious

Your subconscious is the part of your mind that can influence you or affect your behaviour even though you are not aware of it.

grapple

If you grapple with a problem or difficulty, you try hard to solve it.

lurk

If someone lurks somewhere, they wait there secretly so that they cannot be seen, usually because they intend to do something bad.

doable

If something is doable, it is possible to do it.

gear

The gears on a machine or vehicle are a device for changing the rate at which energy is changed into motion.

sprinkle

If you sprinkle a thing with something such as a liquid or powder, you scatter the liquid or powder over it.

bout

If you have a bout of an illness or of an unpleasant feeling, you have it for a short period.

gauging

If you gauge the speed or strength of something, or if you gauge an amount, you measure or calculate it, often by using a device of some kind.

youthful

Someone who is youthful behaves as if they are young or younger than they really are.

implausible

If you describe something as implausible, you believe that it is unlikely to be true.

rigorous

A test, system, or procedure that is rigorous is very thorough and strict.

outperform

If one thing outperforms another, the first is more successful or efficient than the second.

doggedly

If you describe someone's actions as dogged, you mean that they are determined to continue with something even if it becomes difficult or dangerous.

treadmill

You can refer to a task or a job as a treadmill when you have to keep doing it although it is unpleasant and exhausting.

fume

Fumes are the unpleasant and often unhealthy smoke and gases that are produced by fires or by things such as chemicals, fuel, or cooking.

unforeseen

If something that has happened was unforeseen, it was not expected to happen or known about beforehand.

serendipity

Serendipity is the luck some people have in finding or creating interesting or valuable things by chance.

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OUTLINE

• once a week write a brief weekly list of key tasks in a planner journal

• Then each day on another page of your planner journal, write a list of the tasks that you can reasonably work on or accomplish.

• Try to write this daily task list the evening before.

• Mixing other tasks up with your learning seems to make everything more enjoyable and keeps you from prolonged and unhealthy bouts of sitting.

• Planning your quitting time is as important as planning your working time.

      - can work for **undergraduate** and graduate students in rigorous academic programs.
  

• Try to work on a most important and most disliked task first.