Informant: JY
April 26, 2007
10:00PM
Ann’s notes:
- What will you be doing tomorrow?
o Waking up at 5:50 in the morning, leaving the house between 6 – 6:05 to pick up Ryan Kwan, drive south on 5, east on 8, to go to officer selection pool meeting thing for military. Will go to USD and run until “we want to kill ourselves, and then run some more”, takes about 2-2.5 hours. Afterwards may or may not go to jamba juice. Drop off Ryan Kwan, take shower, 9:30 – not really do much, might take morning nap, have to leave at 12:30 to go to poli class. Takes 25 min to get to class. Sits in 2nd row because professor smokes, ends at 1:45, will go to next class – Chinese discussion class in Center Hall, TA is normally late on Mon and Wed, shows up at 2:05, lasts 50 minutes, 2:50pm – get on bus and go back home, or go to RIMAC with his friend Nick
o Have to pick up father at airport at 3:50 who will spend the night at his place,
o Don’t have anything planned for rest of Friday
§ Refers to binder for work-out schedule (“hardest” day is Friday, Monday is longest day)
- How do you remember this? Do you write it down anywhere or use anything to help you remember?
o Online wiki (http://wiki.storyofjoshua.com/), gCal – weekly display, but not generally used
o Had a test next Tuesday, wasn’t on calendar on before, so wrote it on paper, to remind himself later that he needs to add it to gCal
§ Relies mostly on memory to remember daily schedule
- Say it’s the beginning of the quarter and all of your professors just gave you the dates of all your midterms. What do you do with this information?
o Don’t get that many midterms, but essays and midterms do go on the wiki frontpage, might not them on right away, especially if it’s in Week 6
o Pick up syllabus, and put it on specific classes page instead of mainpage, depending on how he feels
- How do you remember things like when you have class, your work schedule, homework due dates, meetings for clubs or projects?
o Club Meetings
§ Club meetings Monday – different committees, (many diff dates, times, location for each committee)
§ Mostly is on website, when paper is used he remembers to put it on website later
§ When there’s a lot of things to do in a day, he gets out a piece of paper and writes them all down, and figures out which order he wants to do it in
§ Decides which task to do depending on location and duration/time (closing times, etc) – ERC, financial aid office, RIMAC
- Tell me about a time when you had to schedule something with a friend?
o How did you and your friend agree on a time?
§ Staff meetings for MUN: right now there are 6 members who are on staff, had to find a time when all of them are free. They send JY their schedule and he’ll cross reference them – some used HTML TritonLink, some weren’t as computer savvy and wrote it on piece of paper, so didn’t work out too well. Decided on Wednesday at 6:30 by trial and error.
- Do you ever go to your TA’s or professor’s office hours?
· (if yes): Tell me about the last time you decided to go to office hours. How did you decide to go to this particular office hour?
o Have TA and professor OH’s on website under respective classes, used to write them down last quarter, but didn’t do it this quarter because of laziness.
- Let's say I invited you to a concert at Mandeville on Saturday at 2PM. What do you do with this information? How do you decide if you will attend?
- How do you find out about university events? Do you read PEG? Student flyers? ArtPower? Flyers on library walk, etc?
- (if yes:) Tell me about the last time you decided to go to an university event?
- Conflicted with GBM time
- In touch with MUN-related events by getting e-mails about them from MUN officers
- Doesn’t read PEG and student flyers – deletes those e-mails
TritonLink
- Do you use TritonLink's weekly planner? If so, for what purpose and how do you use it?
- Do you use the calendar to schedule anything other than classes? (ie. extracurriculars)
- 2 years ago everything was planned out for every hour of every day, but stopped doing that because it’s a waste of time and it’s not really followed anyway
- What limitations do you meet when scheduling events?
- None. “I speak computer.”
- Is there anything you would change about it?
- Berkeley has a program that lets you enter the classes you want to take and you rank them, and it schedules it for you
- Do you use TritonLink as a source of information for dates or events? (Academic calendar, events calendar)
- Yes. To find out when instruction starts. Used to write it down on Google calendar. Used to use it to find out what week it was, and when finals start. Nowadays Google has better interface so he writes it down on Google calendar
- (if yes:) if you could do anything, how would you make this information more accessible or easier to use?
- Maybe if there’s a comprehensive super-planner type thing, almost like Google calendar, and automatically adds things onto it.
- Take weekly calendar thing, and make it really cool – with monthly view, daily view, have all classes set up, final times set up.
- Don’t print out weekly calendar anymore. Sometimes forget classes at beginning of the quarter, so will have to bust out computer and look it up online
Chris’ Notes:
Wiki
- separated into three categories
o action items
o status – dates, time, details
o more specific pages
- main page has immediate events
- less immediate (4-5 weeks ahead) in class specific pages
Google Calendar
- keep track of academic week
- sparse use
Paper
- uses a piece of paper to write what to add on calendar, but generally remembers to do so anyways
- to do list: when there are a lot to do
Coordination
- everyone sends schedule to one person and that one looks for gaps
o people send digital and physical versions
Information Feed
- Model UN
- TritonLink calendars
Suggestions
- google calendar-like
- automatic class and exam times
weekly, monthly view
Artifacts
JY's wiki: http://wiki.storyofjoshua.com
JY uses this to plan out what he has to do
This is the work-out schedule that JY follows every week. It is located in JY's "Lance Corporal" binder (U.S. Marine's)
When there's a lot of things to do on a day, JY gets out a notecard like the one above and writes down what he has to do and figures out which order he should do it in.
JY uses this sheet for long-term planning for his academic career. It is posted on the wall next to his desk. He hasn't made changes on it since the first time he filled it out.
Sequence Model
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