Chaos Theory Essay

College students like myself often put off sleep for other activities like studying, doing homework or even just staying up all night with a friend. Our body follows the twenty-four hour cycle of each day and night through a biological clock called the Circadian rhythm. On the weekdays, staying up all night and skipping meals makes it difficult to focus in class. After lunchtime, I become sleepy and have difficulty focusing on my other classes. In the afternoon, this affects my body because it does not give me energy, but instead it makes me crash earlier in the day.

This also falls in the school systems hand to where they set an unreasonable time causing kids to wake up earlier. Getting to bed at a disobliging time after doing hours of school, homework, and other activities is very hard when you also want to be active in the things you do because many still have a social life and want to spend time with family or friends. These many hours of going to school and then returning home to continue doing schoolwork is rough. While also trying your best, it is very hard to maintain sleep and stay aware in your

Ever since I have begun life at college, I have found going to bed on a decent time each night a very troublesome task. I wake up feeling very tired the next morning, and I always seem in a rush to get my day started. Because of staying up so late and then not waking up on time, I am sometimes late to work or class. In addition, I find myself very tired and stressed throughout the day. This in effect makes me often irritable toward other people. I am tired of living my life in a constant flurry every morning. Thus, the behavioral change that I would like to alter is my sleeping schedule. Being tired after a night of sleep just leads to anxiety and causes even

I am performing my occupation on routine basis, but before occupational analysis activity assignment I never pay attention for my life cycle and how much time I am spending behind my daily routine tasks. This assignment helps me a lot to organize myself and learn about the time management. Poor time management skills can lead to anxiety, depression, procrastination, frustration, anger, and diminished interpersonal, and occupational interaction (Marcil,2007). From occupational analysis question one pie chart (figure1) about the activity differentiation, I found that education and performing ADLs was two of my major occupations, I am spent most of the time in these two occupations. Also, I found that work and IADLs were my next two priorities for occupations and I spent very less time for play, leisure and socialization. I believe, as a student I have to spend about fifty percent of my time for study and less time for ADL and work. Also, I found that my daily routine pattern was unbalance because of lack of sleep and less time for play, leisure. The insight I found form question two activity analysis pie chart(figure.2) that I performed most of routine occupations with energetically even though there was not balanced in real life. I believe that not all days are same for everybody, my mood changes based on environment, workload, and priorities. Some time when I come from school or work I feel lethargic and I don’t like to do anything, but my insight always encourages me to perform if I have any assignment due or exams on next day. The insight that I gains about the relationship between studies, ADLs, work, IADLs, play, leisure, and sleep/rest are not balance. I know that ADLs, IADLs, and work are important tasks of daily living; I need some personal time for play, leisure and sleep/rest time that keeps me away from burnout and becoming ill. The secret of

Achieving external stability is an important objective of economic policy, achieving this stability ensures that imbalances in Australia’s economic relationships with other economies do not hinder achieving domestic economic policy goals such as lower rate of unemployment, higher rate of growth and lower inflation. There are three main factors that effect external stability the deficit on the current account (CAD), net foreign liabilities and the Australian dollar. Australia’s experienced times when overseas investors decided that the economy’s external position was unstable, and when investors like such decide to withdraw their

When I first started I thought this would be so easy. I would breeze through this with no problem. Man was I wrong! I started at around nine-o’clock PM the night before my full day so that meant I would stop at nine-o’clock PM the next night. On a normal night I fall asleep around twelve AM however, on this night I surprisingly fell asleep around eleven

The initial shock of the significant workload and expectations can take their toll, but good time management skills can prevent multiple late nights in a row to get assignments done on time. Kelci Lynn Lucier has worked in higher education for ten years, and has experienced students struggle to try and find the balance between extracurricular activities, personal activities, and education priorities. Luckily, Lucier has four tips to help best use the time provided in a day. Lucier’s first step focuses on managing ones academic time and how it needs to be the top priority above all other curricular activities, stating: “It's important to remind yourself why you're in college in the first place: to graduate” (Lucier). Lucier’s second step is be able to manage personal time, she talks about how unrealistic it is to always be working, studying, or learning, she wants students to try and find time to do something fun with friends or a club. Lucier’s third step is to wkeep the students health in mind, it does no good to stay up until two in the morning studying over a history mid-term, only to be half asleep for the test anyway; sleep is important and without can only increase the stress. Lucier’s fourth and final step is to not be afraid to seek help with your time management, she states: “The most important thing to have for time

During the hours of 8 am to 8pm I am running around and so focused on other things, that I ignore what I might possibly need. After 8 pm I allow myself an hour to regather myself and ask, what do I need to do to get done before tomorrow? That whole hour allows me to re-centre and balance myself, however I am not sure how effective it in is such a short amount of time. By 9pm I am so physically exhausted, but somehow very mentally aware and I find myself the most productive at this time. Maybe it's because I’m to tired to move that it allows me to focus and do my homework, or just watch a show, but it is a direct reflection of my mental and physical needs. By 11 pm I turn off my home, check on my kids and head to bed where I do personal self reflection, which is a really bad habit of mine. With the guidelines of wellness and the medicine wheel brought to my attention, I am able to effetely redirect myself in a more positive outcome. Both the wellness guidelines and medicine wheel are directed to guide us to a better self understanding and positive reinforced tool box of

5. Have a planner to write down important dates like due dates for projects and to make sure you know what homework you need to have done.

To begin with, I can work on staying in the classroom, I don’t mean that physically, I mean try not to wander off into my own world. Just trying to stay focused on the topic in class. I will try to be more interactive with the subject. Doing that will help me concentrate in class. The next step to work on is getting assignments in on time throughout the whole year. Usually in the beginning of the year I get everything done and turned in on time, but towards the end of the year I slowly start to turn in assignments late, and they are not my best work. Perhaps I could start assignments right away, when I am first given them, because in the past I sometimes started on assignments really late and that's the reason I wouldn't do my best work on them. I could turn assignments in before they are due, or set my own due date so that I can get work in on time and I am submitting my best work. One last thing I would like to work on is actually studying for tests before I take them. Tests are a tremendous part of a grade and I think that for many times I almost failed a class, it was because I didn't pass a test, or didn't want to take the time to retake it. So, this will be something I can work to head on the path of graduating with a

This goes back to organizing your time and managing the assignments that are most important for you to finish first. It is an absolute necessity that you are able to manage your time. It would also be a good idea to get a planner to help manage the things you need to focus on for that day and it also helps you remember upcoming tests, due dates, and appointed events.

Reading over the Columbia College successful strategies article and the Rasmussen College 6 time management article, I have learned some helpful tips to get me through my college experiences. The two strategies that stood out the most from the Columbia College article was, how you need to break old routines and set homework hours for a time your child might be asleep. (Columbia) These two strategies caught my attention the most. I currently work on my assignments when my child is asleep. As for breaking old routines, it is so difficult for human begins to get out of old routines or accept change. I am hoping as time progresses I will be able to accomplish that with ease. As for the Rasmussen College article, one of the student's states his

I think when I get to college it will be very challenging for me to keep my grades up while still wanting to go to parties or stuff like that. I would have to make a schedule so I could keep track of time. A good idea while I am working is I could work with a study group of friends to help make it less stressful for me to do my work. It is always good to have fun while studying. Right now as a freshman in high school I am practicing that goal. I have practice almost everyday and still work to do for my classes. I am sure that it is not going to get easier. Although I do get tired when I come home from practice, I still do my work. Sometimes I do my homework in class so I would have less to do at home. Mrs. Martinez tells us to make a schedule in our planners and write down our homework assignments so it could help with keeping track of our work in classes. All so have a binder and keep our stuff organize so we won’t stress on finding work. It really helps. I just hope to have a very educational and fun time in

Upon reviewing the “Best Strategies for success in school” I realize that I now apply many ideas I use to ignore to my school approach such as getting to know my instructors, breaking down projects into more manageable tasks to avoid procrastination, and staying healthy. All the strategies listed are important but the three key strategies that will remain with me the longest throughout my academic career will be to getting help with difficult class work early, keeping most

I signed up for a 0 period class my junior year of high school. I had to wake up at 6:30 in the morning every day to attend a 7:00 class. Call me crazy, but I slept at 9 o’clock sharp every single night for a semester. I wanted to get as much sleep as I can because my mother emphasized quality sleep leads to a quality brain and a healthy body. Plus, my body always felt like a zombie whenever I did not have at least 8.5 hours of sleep every day. Second semester as a junior is probably the most hectic time of anyone’s high school career, so I extended my curfew to 10:00PM to study some more or complete some of my assignments in advance. How was I able to do this? Well, whenever I had the opportunity, I would finish as much homework as I can at school and spend the time I had at home to study.