{"id":534,"date":"2013-02-21T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2013-02-21T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:13:00","slug":"homework-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/college-fun\/homework-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Homework Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7197\/6965598661_bfeb39a09d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Productivity. It&#8217;s something we all strive for. In college, it&#8217;s getting through all of the readings and assignments without being distracted. In the real world, it might be hitting that deliverable deadline on time, and consistently.<\/p>\n<p>But what does it really mean? Does productivity mean always being busy? Would a worker who is done with his or her work in 4 hours, and sits around the rest of the day be more or less productive than a worker who takes 8 hours to finish the same amount of work?<\/p>\n<p>When thinking about this, but in the context of college, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ve all had our friends who were more &#8220;productive&#8221; in class. In that, they could read or study material once and just get it. And for others, including myself, sometimes we&#8217;d struggle to fully understand the concepts of discrete mathematics, or credits and debits, or a sociology topic.<\/p>\n<p>So what are tips that can help you be more productive as you move one step closer to graduation and dawning those graduation sashes and stoles?<\/p>\n<p>One tip is to use the rule of three and keep major decisions to three of fewer people. So when you&#8217;re trying to decide the course of your final project, or how to organize your chapter&#8217;s next event\u2026 consider going with the rule of three.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for more productivity tips? Check out this great article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/small-business\/sb-tools\/top-tens\/ten-ways-to-increase-employee-productivity\/article8485080\/\">globeandmail.com.<\/a> While the tips pertain more to companies, you can see how this can easily apply to study groups, Greek chapters, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/toothrot\/6965598661\/\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Productivity. It&#8217;s something we all strive for. In college, it&#8217;s getting through all of the readings and assignments without being distracted. In the real world,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[109,280,328],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-fun","tag-college","tag-graduation","tag-homework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}