D's, Due, and Do

D’s Due and Do

For lacrosse we have to use the D’s Due and Do technique every week. Each Sunday we sit down with a mentor and fill out a big sheet of our weekly schedule. We write down when our assignments are due and write down what days we are going to do the work. Last week I had big Religion 244 essay that was due on Saturday night by midnight. I made sure to leave time to correct and edit my paper for Friday during the day. I did the reading on Monday so I had a better understanding on what to write my paper on and so I didn’t have to waste anytime when I met with my tutor on Tuesday. I broke it up during the week and met with my tutor on Tuesday and did two pages of it. I met with my tutor again on Thursday and did two more pages of it, which completed it. This left me time on Friday and Saturday to re-read my essay and make the changes that I needed for the final draft.

It also helped me with my history essay that was due last Thursday. It was an autobiography about my life and how I ended up here at Syracuse. It only had to be two pages so I broke it up and wrote a page on Monday and page on Tuesday and edited it on Tuesday night. I also had to read 4 chapters that week in history so I broke them and read a chapter a day up until my recitation on Thursday, where we discuss what we read.

I’ve been using this technique since the beginning of school and has really helped my time management and I have been doing more efficient work much easier and less stressful to break it up instead of waiting till the night before which I used to do the past few years.