As the Easter holidays approached I found myself beathing a heavy sigh of relief in the fact that there was uni free month ahead of me. After putting off much of my work for the holidays I found myself having a nasty shock upon my return to the city.

Having let my work load build up I have been left with an email inbox bursting to the brim, a mountain of assignments and to top it all off I’m out of printing credits. Could my day get any worse (well only when I tried purchasing credits online). Note to self, NEVER AGAIN!

Knowing I still haven’t even looked at my work, I found facebook and twitter to be far more engaging and to an extent rather mind stimulating.

I did however do something useful with my time over Easter, attending the annual conference of FEJS (Forum for European Journalism Students). Such a great week, I wouldn’t know where to start!

Look out for my blog about the conference, but for now I better make some sort of dent in this work.

I think I’ve wasted at least 10 minutes more of my life there, good work!

Well, wish me luck! x

Hi,

I am a second year media, communication and culture student and I find it quite hard to believe I have actually managed to make it this far, mostly because I have pretty much zero organisational skills, and i mean zero. My version of an organised filing system simply means that most of it made it to a file, although that’s usually not the case, most files are sat gathering dust and have been since college.

I have come to realise that this tactic soon stops working. I decided instead of sitting on my backside all year with my clever filing system, I would take on the world. Well start a society. I began my quest at the beginning of the year thinking I could get some credit and praise for organising a few drunken nights out, oh how wrong was I? Yes there are druknen nights involved, but the paper work is unreal, not so good for a girl that has a fear of paper work, I dont think my intelligent filing system is ready for that. After 2 weeks of running round my bedroom (which is possibly as messy as my sophisicated filing) searching for bits of paper work, the ones that hadn’t been reprinited about 4 times due to the early morning coffee spills (which are much more regular than I would like) I was handed a gift by my dearest mother, lots of plastic files (genius), it’s amazing how files can change my life.

I also realised this week that in order to complete my Journalism placement in India this Summer i was meant to email my CV to the guy planning my trip, about erm…….6 weeks ago, luckily after going to a CV workshop today(which was very uselful and I would reccommend) the penny dropped, only plastic files can’t save me now, this is going to take some serious apology, although I’m sure the grand I am paying him may sweeten the deal. But more on India next time, if I haven’t burned my bridges that is.

I must say even though I have chatted some utter rubbish I learned a lesson this week, as much as my laid back attitude has suited me this far, I think it time to face the facts that I need to put myself in gear.

I’ll leave you one piece of advice though, go buy yourself some colourful files and get organised now, it will prevent the 12 hour sessions that I have endured through college and first year while trying to compile an entire years worth of work into some comprehensive order. I think after years the message may have taken.

So I’ll sit here and rewrite my coffee stained notes while attempting to draft my apology for the extreme late submission of my CV. I’ll let you know how it goes!

Kerry