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accesscodes, college, fall, homework, life, personal, procrastination, textbooks, university
By now if you’re enrolled for the fall semester of college or university, you have had your first day, first week, decided to give up, cried in the shower and decided to stick it out for another 15 weeks. At least I hope that wasn’t just me. And the dreaded drama of access codes and online homework has reared it’s ugly head again and they put your homework where?.. ONLINE.
Now I love the convenience of not having to use pen and paper and hurt my money making wrist doing homework. But I can find at least 5 million websites to go on before doing my homework and that is not an exaggeration. So what do I do to ensure my homework gets done and I don’t get distracted by Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, reddit, Youtube, etc. etc?
The most recommended is http://www.getcoldturkey.com which blocks sites at specific intervals for a period of time and is extremely difficult to remove. I don’t use that because even though I am doing homework, I still need my harmless distractions. What I do is try to do the homework for a period of time using the timer on my phone and when the alarm blares I set another alarm for my 10 minute break. It gives me self-control and discipline and in the end I get to do my homework while enjoying it.
So try that see what happens.