Productivity

If there is anything I anticipated but was still totally unprepared for this year, it was the rate at which the pace and workload speeds up. Naturally, the first few weeks are pretty light, in order to ease everyone into the university, course and life as a student.

The concept of setting fake deadlines, whether in the workplace or as a student is not uncommon and more often than none is for the kind of people that need to plan well in advance for project deadlines and submissions.

As deadlines approach, most architecture students begin to panic, stress out and procrastinate heavily but sprint planning is something that can help you avoid all of those things. Planning is a great way to stay one step ahead and make sure that your project has constant clarity and structure.

If you're unfamiliar with calendar blocking, it's basically a way of managing your tasks, events and lifestyle through a calendar. It's also probably one of the most common methods of task management.

Students are often at an interesting point in their lives, often described as a new season or chapter.

Quite some time ago we wrote an article titled '10 Awesome Architecture Blogs you Need to Follow Right Now' which gained some popularity. But it was only after re-visiting this article that I thought, hold on - I can do better than this.

An internet personality whose popularity has been consistently growing for the past few years, Ali Abdaal has become a social media influencer known for providing tips and tricks surrounding productivity.