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But it's not always that easy. "Usually a month in, things start to fall apart," Jenks, a Hutchinson junior, says.
At the start of each semester, Mindy Jenks makes the same promise. She tells herself, "This is the semester I'll change; I'll become organized and actually stay organized."
Staying organized as a student is essential, though it's not always easy to keep up. Tests and projects begin piling up, desks become cluttered and before long, the task of becoming organized is daunting. "Staying organized is hard for everyone," Dr. Mary Ann Rasnack, director of Academic Achievement and Access Center [AAAC], says. "New things pop up, people get sick, etc. The trick is knowing when you're off track and when to ask for help."
The AAAC gave Jenks the help she needed. She scheduled an appointment and the center gave her an advisor who helped improve her time management skills. "I figured it's free here at [the University of Kansas], I might as well utilize all the help I can get," Jenks says. "They helped me set up a schedule for every day of the week. I go to school full time and
Audrey Moylan, a sophomore from Lenexa, says she considers her planner a crucial part of her life. "If I don't have my planner, I feel so disorganized," she says.
Staying organized as a student is not just about jotting down your homework assignments in a planner. Moylan says the area in which she studies must be organized as well. "My desk is usually pretty cluttered," she says. "Plus, I live in a sorority, so it can be kind of noisy. I need a clean, quiet place to study in."
also work, so it's been a huge help scheduling in study time for me."
Setting up a schedule and using a planner helps alleviate academic stress and will also provide a visual tool to help manage your time. Rasnack, the AAAC director, recommends creating two types of planners: one for each day of the week and one for the entire semester. "The weekly planner will help show what is important to do now, while the semester schedule is meant for bigger projects, tests and finals," she says. "I also tell students to use color to tell events apart from each other."
Rasnak suggests finding a quiet place on
campus to study because distractions at home can prevent productivity. The Learning Center on the fourth floor of Anschutz Library is her top recommendation.
Photo Illustration Dalton Gomez
Clutter's last stand: Organizing and planning your life can reduce stress and help create a functional study environment. Detailed schedules and to-do lists ease time-management burdens.
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If your desk is disorganized, try tackling one drawer at a time. Starting small and gradually working towards a more organized area as a whole is most effective and less frightening.
THE BEST PLACES TO FIND ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPLIES IN LAWRENCE:
M&M Office Supply
623 Massachusetts St.
785-843-0763
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Marilyn Roy, owner of Simplify! Organizing Services in Lawrence,says to consider thinking about the amount of time you waste while searching for something in a disorganized pile. She says to then think about how much less time would be spent if similar items were kept together. "You save time, energy and your sanity," Roy says. "It's important to keep things together in the same place so when you sit down to study, everything you need is right there."
Office Depot
2525 Iowa St.
785-841-6688
officedepot.com
If heading to the library isn't a possibility, creating a comfortable but functional place to study at home is important. Too much clutter on top of a desk or a drawer overflowing with papers and pens can lead to an overwhelmed feeling.
Target
3201 South Iowa St.
785-832-0660
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"Visualize what you want it to look like," Roy says. She also suggests a planner or calendar to keep on track.
Between maintaining an academic to-do list and a clutter-free desk, forgetting to schedule time to relax and be social is easy. For Jenks, this means having two planners: one for school and another for fun things like hanging out with friends. Penciling in time for yourself is just as important as writing down the due date of a Spanish essay.
"If you don't schedule for life, it contributes to feeling unorganized," Rasnack, the AAAC director, says. "The key is to include everything."
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library expansion approved
The expansion will include the construction of a new parking lot and the addition of 100 public computers.
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Opinion. 5A
Sports. 12A
Sudoku. 4A
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You Bakery, on Jan. 28. The owners said they hoped to fulfill students' and residents' desires for late night sweets after a late night on the town, while staying up to study or while staying in with friends. They said their goal was to have the cookies at their customers' doorsteps as fast as Jimmy John's does.
"the best cookies ever."
A VISIONARY, A BUSINESSMAN AND A BAKER
"I decided to go ahead and make the recipes myself just because it would be better for our ingredients and our storage purposes," Olsen said. "This doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense unless you know exactly what is in our cookies, which is a secret."
McCallough is the businessman.
"I ordered their cookies last Thursday with my friends and I have never had a better chocolate chip cookie," said Shannon Spurlock, a junior from Burlingame, Calif. "All of the cookies they serve are great. I would know because I ordered one of every kind to be sure I ate
mine, I have received them and they were especially excited about what they had learned.
Rafferty is the visionary. He came up with the idea for the bakery after seeing something similar succeed while he was at school in Colorado. He said he thought one in Lawrence could make money, too.
Rafferty, McCallough and Olsen said they put a lot of time and effort into making the company run smoothly.
"It has been a cool lesson of interdependence to see how we all click together," McCollough said.
While Lucky You Bakery has not been open long enough to determine how much it makes on an average night, business has tripled since opening weekend, said McCollough. So far, the owners have handed out a few flyers and have mainly relied on word of mouth, Facebook and Twitter to generate business.
As for where they are headed, none of them really know. With brownies to join their menu soon, Rafferty hopes for expansion. He said some day they may even like to have a store front.
The cookies cost $6 for six or $12 for 13. Lucky You Bakery is open for delivery Thursdays from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. and Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Customers can order online at luckyyoubakery.com or by calling (785) 865-1466.
"We want it to grow." Rafferty said. "We want to continue perfecting what we do, but we don't know how large the market is. It's going to be a journey."
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**Above:** Bailey Olsen, a senior from Overland Park, measures ingredients for a cookie mix. Olsen, Jack Rafferty, a senior from Shawnee, and Will McCullough, a 2008 alumus, opened Lucky You Bakery, a cookie delivery service, two weeks ago.
**Top:** Bailey Olsen, a senior from Overland Park, Will McCullough, a 2008 KU alum, and Jack Rafferty, a senior from Shawnee, own a local cookie delivery business called Lucky You Bakery.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
The Suarez sisters work to uncover bones from an unknown dinosaur species found at a dig site in Utah. The twin sisters named this species Geminiraptor suarezarum.
DINOSAUR
Species named after graduates
BY LISA ANDERSEN landersen@kansan.com
In 2004, twin KU graduates Celina and Marina Suarez discovered a new dinosaur species; now the species is officially named after them: geminiraptor suarezarum.
The 29-year-old geochem-
ists from San made the discovery while doing research at a separate site in Utah. The two began following a layer of rock that strayed from the site. Marina wandered into a gully
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paleontologists. The dinosaur was identified as a troodontid, a small two-legged carnivore
where they saw bones sticking out from the rock.
After spotting limb and toe bones, the sisters came back the next morning with a group of
"I remember my sister saying 'Wow! Jackpot!' Celina said. "We were pretty excited and knew we had found a significant site."
GOVERNMENT
School of Social Welfare faces cuts
BY CLAYTON ASHLEY cashley@kansan.com
The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center in Lawrence is facing a state funding cut for the fifth year in a row, creating a potentially negative effect on the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare.
Dave Johnson, CEO of Bert Nash, was candid about his plans for the potential $372,000 cut.
"This particular cut we're going to tight as hard as we can," he said.
Gov. Sam Brownback's proposed 2011 budget calls for $15 million in
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