{"id":3928,"date":"2016-04-24T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2016-04-07T11:09:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:09:51","slug":"tackling-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2016\/04\/24\/tackling-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on this semester, it truly flew by, but now the time is finally here&#8230;FINALS WEEK! \u00a0While some people absolutely dread it, I kind of enjoy it, but only because I plan ahead (and find joy in planning ahead). \u00a0As an art and design major, a lot of our finals are final projects, which means the earlier you get your final project done, the sooner you can check that class off your to-do list! \u00a0Isn&#8217;t that a beautiful thing? \u00a0Here are my top strategies to getting ahead on your final projects and papers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write out a list of all the remaining assignments and projects that you have left for each of your classes<\/li>\n<li>Take that list and set dates that you would like each assignment to be completed by<\/li>\n<li>Make a schedule of when you&#8217;re going to work on each assignment<\/li>\n<li>Put your phone on the other side of the room, but with the volume on. \u00a0If someone needs to reach you, you&#8217;ll know&#8230;otherwise you&#8217;ll be too tempted to check it every 5 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Be in touch with your professor to confirm that the guidelines for the assignments haven&#8217;t changed. \u00a0There&#8217;s nothing worse than completing an assignment and putting in your all, only to have the professor change the guidelines completely.<\/li>\n<li>Plan incentives\/rewards for yourself once you finish each project. \u00a0Whether it&#8217;s a snack or a nap (my two choices), it helps to motivate you.<\/li>\n<li>Rejoice in the fact that you have finished a semester!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best of luck!<\/p>\n<p>Ashley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on this semester, it truly flew by, but now the time is finally here&#8230;FINALS WEEK! \u00a0While some people absolutely dread it, I kind of enjoy it, but only because I plan ahead (and find joy in planning ahead). \u00a0As an art and design major, a lot of our finals are final projects, which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2016\/04\/24\/tackling-finals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tackling Finals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8688,31480,31188,133,8721,23512],"tags":[208,41202,4558,42,31501,23960,85,31483],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-art-major","category-ashley","category-bloggers","category-courses","category-online-classes","tag-advice","tag-ashley","tag-college","tag-fit","tag-liberal-arts","tag-stress","tag-tips","tag-tips-and-tricks","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3StnM-11m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}