Extreme Multitasking: It's Not What It's Cracked Up To Be

The joke of saying that studying is the act of texting, eating, and watching TV with an open textbook nearby, is also one of the answers to a problem that runs through our society: extreme multitasking. The answer, of course, is that we all need to stop doing two or more things at once.

While you might already be claiming that it’s better that single-tasking, or that it works for you, I’m guessing that your blogging, surfing, and homework histories would reveal the opposite. It doesn’t make getting your homework done easier; it makes your time more enjoyable. Of course, that enjoyment only lasts until the homework backs up and you’re left with multiple all nighters, gallons of caffeine, and mountains of junk food make you miserable and sick.

The answer to homework progress or writing a paper isn’t a 12 hour day filled with nothing but work. The answer is dedicated work time, dedicated free time, and plenty of sleep (done at night, not in the middle of the afternoon!) Of course homework sucks in comparison to all the things we’d rather be doing, but homework isn’t bad for you and it isn’t suffering, even if the way you do it becomes insufferable!