Many students manage to get higher grades while under
pressure, it makes the task seem a lot more realistic and surreal as the
pressure of a deadline or the pressure of having a word count can be enough to
motivate even the laziest of students into action and into doing their much
needed essays, reports or projects. I am one of these students that manages to
work better under pressure, as I feel it motivates me to do better than in
normal circumstances.
If you have chosen a very much essay based course, such as a
English or a Law course, the workload can be quite challenging anyway, whereas
if you have chosen a report based or lab based subject, you get to do the lab
based work, such as programming, reports or experiments on top of the regular
work load, making your load much harder to cope with in my opinion. This can
lead to increased stress and the other variables that come with that. In my
opinion, my work load for the first term has been varied between subjects, such
as more work for lab based subjects, like Computer Programming and less work
for subjects like Mathematics.
Music seems to be a way of making myself concentrate more
and for longer on things that matter like the University courses and a way to
cope with an increasing work load. You could almost call me an audiophile in
the way music is a way of escape from pressure, it also helps when actually
doing work and assignments and it also makes it feel like a smaller workload.
Another way to reduce workload would be to work on assignments from the moment
you receive them, and chip away at them until they are done, which could take
days, but it makes it feel like much less work then sitting down at a desk and
trying to do all the work in one sitting. You may have more ideas over the
course of many days then just one day anyway for your assignment or essay.
I expect the workload in the future to get heavier, and
therefore more time spent revising, researching and using information that is
harder to find and understand. Therefore I expect this workload to increase
both in labs and out of them writing reports. I also expect the pressure to
increase as the time for deadlines decreases, instead of being a month or so as
they are now, I expect they may decrease to a point of around a week, which
will increase the amount of work needed in a smaller period of time.
