Second First Day

So the Second First day has come and gone.  Today I went to two new classes.  Electronic Literacy this morning and Poetry Writing this afternoon.  I am excited about both of these classes.  They sound like fun, and the professors are pretty cool.  We've already had a great discussion about the impact of Technology and Mass Media on Society.  We talked about how our lives are different from those of people our age 100 years ago and what has facilitated that change.  I'm not going to go into details here cause I'd have to get out my notes, and that would require effort on my part.  

I am trying something new this time around.  When I went to college the first time, (oh that just sounds weird) I did quite a bit of procrastinating.  I would be lazy during the day and therefore up super late every night working on homework.  

I do not care to fall into that cycle again.  

My Dad has told me about this concept a few times and tried to get me to embrace it when I was in college, but I didn't.  He told me to treat school like a 9-5 job, regardless of what time the class met.  Basically this means that you get up at a decent time in the morning (even if you don't have an 8 o'clock class) and work on school work until you go to class.  Then if you have breaks in the middle of the day, you work on school work.  Whenever classes get over, you spend the rest of the time (until 5) working on homework/projects/etc.  At 5:00, you stop doing school work, and you have the rest of the evening to do whatever you want.   I think it was also my Dad who told me about some girls who did this, and they always had plenty of time to get assignments completed and never had to do homework after 5.  

So far, this is working pretty well.  It kinda stinks because I don't hang out with people between classes, but since I already went to college once and have graduated (as have my friends), I don't really have anyone to hang out with anyway.  I do have to say, it is very nice to spend the evenings relaxing and not having that voice in the back of my head saying "Carey, stop messing around - do your homework."  

Pray for me, that I will be able to keep this up.  I know that I tend to fizzle out pretty quickly when it comes to things like this.  But, as a wise man in my life says, 

"Discipline, Carey, discipline."