Work/Life Balance
I work 40+ hours a week, I’m taking 6 credits (one is a seminar, one is a studio) - I already get up at 5:30 in the morning, and I cut off all my hair so it takes less time to get ready. I leave the house at 7. That means I have 45 minutes to spend on work in the morning. I get home at 9 on M, T, W, and by that time, I’m too exhausted to sit ( Read more... )
- Generally, I try to read things that are interesting to me/important to my own work and things that I know are important to the faculty member teaching the course. When a professor assigns her own articles, I read those before I read anything else. If I have indications that a professor isn't going to place emphasis on a particular author, I'll save that person's work to read last.
- I don't do a lot with theory, so I don't know how helpful this will be, but I find that with books, one can often get by with reading the introductory chapter, the concluding paragraphs of the middle chapters, and the concluding chapter.
- If your programs allow it, sometimes you can give in the same paper for multiple courses, when the paper is relevant to both. Faculty in my program often encourage this so that students don't spread themselves too thin and have more polished stuff they can submit for publication.
Good luck! :)
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