Ronnie Nurss

Browsing through blogs, I found a interesting topic from FOBlog - A Student’s Entrepreneurial Journey, about starting his semester of college off on the right foot. I must admit, even though I still maintained to make the honors list and earn good grades, I found myself lacking in essential skills to maximize my education experience. I have finished my general ED in 3 semesters, and now have a full semester to fill with classes of my personal interests before I transfer. Loaded with fun classes, and working only 20 hours a week compared to 40+ last semester, I have jotted down a few goals and guidelines for this semester.

• Turn in Assignments a day early - After reading the 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, I will achieve better time management by aiming to be productive instead of busy. So a new mind trick I am going to play is to just give myself less time to complete assignments, as it seems I produce way more on assignment or essay when I have a matter of hours left compared to a matter of days to complete it. Plus, by getting these assignments out of the way, I gain more personal time.
• Get my money’s worth and Take advantage of the professors - This is one aspect of college that I always regret after each semester. Depending on whether your professor is awesome and enlightening, or just hates teaching and ruins the subject for you, I want to make more connections and build relationships with the professors I fancy. Especially with this semester jam-packed of subjects that interest me, I am looking forward to putting more effort towards asking the professors questions, hang out for a bit after class, and take advantage of the wealth of knowledge these people can potentially offer.
• Read the text….. daily and nightly - This is also due to boring subjects that just don’t appeal to me, but that’s still a pathetic excuse. If I’m gonna get financially gang-banged by overpriced textbooks, I am gonna read them and enhance the lectures with the reading. I always seem to replace textbook reading with my personal reading, but I plan to balance the two together this semester.
• Pack my lunches, save some money - I am going to wake up just 10 minutes earlier each morning and make some snacks, hey, maybe even make myself a sandwich, to bring with me to school. I spend, specifically waste, about 5 dollars a day on a Sobe and French fries. Save money, eat fruit and be more healthy.
• Make more authentic relationships - I always try to find at least one or two people in each class that I relate to and or create an authentic friendship with. By “authentic” friendship, I mean not just a guy I will BS with before or during class, but a mutually beneficial relationship. Study partner, a friend or partner that will push me in the right direction, and grow an authentic relationship that can grow for the years to come.

Those are the goals of this spring semester, and I’ll post updates to track how I am exhibiting these goals. Any suggestions? Any goals of your own for your semester or new endeavor in life?

Wednesday, 23. January 2008 at 10:13 pm posted under Lifestyle, Personal Development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can also Leave A Response or Trackback from your own site. Thanks for reading.