Organisation

[hearthand]

I'm sure an area of my CV explains that I am a highly organised person. Since my first year of university I began to learn that the deadlines for my degree weren't something that I could just blag my way through. By the third year I had matured enough to recognise that it wasn't a good idea to leave an assignment to the evening before. To cope with

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[icelore]

I punch holes and binder everything I print off. Then put a tag at the top with a keyword or author, and use that for light referencing till I go back and cite properly.

[hearthand]

See, that kind of organisation is just too effective for me!

When I'm writing and quoting from a printed paper I've got to wrestle it from its storage binder, spread the pages all over my desk (I always print with page numbers, something I learned the hard ware after having to context-reorganise pages) and jumble them up before later getting up to do something else... THEN I come back to finish what I was writing or to put everything back together.

[hearthand]

... learned the hard way, not hard ware. I've been writing about technology for way too long.

[hearthand]

OH! Found it!!!

[anarchitect]

Oh gosh, I seriously need a new organization system. I need to get a printer. Printing at school is just way too complicated (and pricey).

I always do that too, though. While writing my papers, I insert REFERENCE and then forget the page number of my reference or something. Ugh.