Organising everything from Lent term 09

My room is an absolute mess. The floor is covered with reams of paper containing lecture notes, question sheets and supervision work from the last four weeks: at some point in the term I lost the struggle against the influx of paper, now I’m paying for it. This always seems to happen when I return from University — last time it took me the full four-week holiday just to organise my room.

Note all the reading material on the far wall!

I have two main aims this holiday: firstly to ensure that I pass my summer examinations at Cambridge because otherwise my life will become much more difficult; secondly to get fitter or at least maintain my current level of fitness. These are achievable goals that will depend on organisational skills and motivation.

It’s too easy to become lazy, especially stuck in a house four miles away from the nearest town. I much prefer being at university, surrounded by people similar to myself with many of the same goals and aims in life. We all want to achieve highly, to compete with each other and to learn how to time-manage in such an intense environment. I think I have a disadvantage with the latter; it’s been the hardest (or rather most difficult, my primary school teacher would lecture us about the semantics of the word hard…) skill to improve but it’s probably the most important to succeed in life.

So in conclusion I have to get revising, keep working out and clear up the mess. I can do it.