See Jane Work | Pulling It Together CLEAN MAMA How to Organize Your Files Written by Jason Eisner in 2000, for new Computer Science Ph.D. students at the University of Rochester. by Jason Eisner Here are some suggestions about how to organize your work during your research career. Workstyles vary, and you will develop your own organizing system over time. But these are techniques that I personally have found to be helpful. Be careful, though - what really matters is the work itself, so don't spend all your time getting more organized than necessary! Keeping Track of Information Online Although paper has its uses, electronic files have at least four advantages over paper: easy to edit, readable from anywhere with a computer, harder to lose, and searchable. Partly for this reason, you may spend much of your workday editing files in Emacs. Put it in a special file. As for general directory organization, do it any way you like. You will probably organize your more personal files into subdirectories under ~/proj, ~/teach, ~/mail, etc. Version Control Administrivia
Angela Says: A Cleaning Blog Frugal and Thriving - An Australian site about frugal living, saving money, money management, sustainable living and thriving on less. Want to Improve Your Grades…Improve Your Study Skills! Yes, it really is that simple. If you want to improve your grades, you need to improve those study skills. Choose a specific place to study and get the materials you'll need to use while you study. Next, you need to set up a schedule to do the majority of your studying. Keep a social life. Make sure you understand each assignment. Take good notes in class. See if your teacher is willing to meet with a small group of students for extra help. Highlight what you're reading. ou might consider study groups. Diet also plays a part in your grades. Now, go ace that test!
Organize and Decorate Everything — Organize Your Life and Decorate Your World Here is another garland I made for Emilee’s birthday and to decorate her bedroom door. This is another great way to give money as a gift. To make the Dollar Bow Garland you can make as many bows as you like and in any denomination. My folding skills aren’t amazing so I decided on making a simple bow. Fold one end of the bill toward the center, then the other end. Accordion fold the center of the bill a bit then smush it together. Cut a length of bakers twine and wrap it around the center of the bill a few times to secure it. Cut bakers twine for the length of the banner. Emilee loved it! I have one more garland I made for her birthday. Check out these posts if you missed fun ways to give money to teens:Straw GarlandBirthday Money Balloons Do you know the perfect birthday gift for your teen? I started with 50 $1 bills and 18 straws. I measured and cut the straws in half. Then I used a needle to pull the bakers twine through each straw. This is so exciting! Happy Sweet 16 Emilee!!!
A Bowl Full of Lemons. Life. Organized. It’s Not About You But, especially this year, one is conscious of the many ways in which this year’s graduating class has been ill served by their elders. They enter a bad job market, the hangover from decades of excessive borrowing. They inherit a ruinous federal debt. More important, their lives have been perversely structured. This year’s graduates are members of the most supervised generation in American history. Through their childhoods and teenage years, they have been monitored, tutored, coached and honed to an unprecedented degree. Yet upon graduation they will enter a world that is unprecedentedly wide open and unstructured. No one would design a system of extreme supervision to prepare people for a decade of extreme openness. Worst of all, they are sent off into this world with the whole baby-boomer theology ringing in their ears. But, of course, this mantra misleads on nearly every front. College grads are often sent out into the world amid rapturous talk of limitless possibilities.
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