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...quota for a week now, but FAS still won’t bounce my e-mails back! The worst part is that I’ve reached the point where I can’t even open these terrible e-mails anymore—I just let them sit unread in my inbox for days at a time. I’ve tried to get friends to read them for me, but their patience has finally worn thin. How can I handle the inevitable failure that awaits me every time I log on to pine?! —delinquent@fasDelinquent...
...personal life, I do a lot multitasking. Unlike most folks, however, I've researched the subject, having now written two big articles on multitasking, including this week's cover story. That doesn't exactly make me an expert (heck, no, for at this very moment there are 147 unread e-mails in my inbox). But I'm probably more conscious than most people about the pluses and minuses, the limits and excesses of trying to do too many things at once. And I'm happy to share a few tips that I know I should be applying more assiduously myself...
...Manage your inbox. Don't let your e-mail inbox fill up with undifferentiated stuff - unread mail, read mail, flagged-for-follow-up mail, etc. Daniel Markovitz, senior associate at IBT-USA, a time-management consulting firm, teaches clients to apply one of the "4 D's" to e-mail, snail mail and just about everything else...
...borrow her stuff from now on, too, so as to not put her on the defensive and to illustrate that these are equally beneficial, and not just your dictates. Regarding the missing money, be completely sure that it is missing and not just under that pile of clothes or unread syllabi or cold pack from UHS or newspaper clippings from home about your father’s band, “Mid-Life Crisis.” Underneath the clutter lies some type of flooring and potentially your lost money. Money is an extremely touchy subject and accusing someone...
...professors manage to get out key dates, persons, places, and reasons why in lectures that often garner applause. While lectures are devoted to outlining a skeleton of Western history, sections are devoted to primary sources that, sadly, often go unread...