Post by journey on Mar 30, 2020 2:12:38 GMT
I'm in my junior year of college, and due to stuff being cancelled from the virus, I realized that MaDD has impacted me far more than I realized.
Almost every semester I've been in college I have done either marching band or indoor drumline. And in those semesters my GPA has been above a 3.0, typically around 3.5. There was one semester I decided not to do indoor drumline because of life stuff, and that semester my gpa was 1.9 (had to check that one, its even lower than I remember). At that point I didn't know about MaDD and just wrote it off as a bad semester due to life issues. However, because of the pandemic, the rest of the indoor drumline season was cancelled two weeks ago. In these past two weeks, I've had 3 late assignments, and a paper due tonight I finished only 2 hours before it was due, because I kept stopping while writing it for as long as an hour to daydream.
At this point, I'm fairly certain that having a creative outlet was massively helping to keep my daydreaming under control and keep me on top of my schoolwork. Now that I'm aware of the issue, I am working on ways to keep my daydreams under control again, but would appreciate any advice for keeping to a schedule without letting MaDD take control.
Almost every semester I've been in college I have done either marching band or indoor drumline. And in those semesters my GPA has been above a 3.0, typically around 3.5. There was one semester I decided not to do indoor drumline because of life stuff, and that semester my gpa was 1.9 (had to check that one, its even lower than I remember). At that point I didn't know about MaDD and just wrote it off as a bad semester due to life issues. However, because of the pandemic, the rest of the indoor drumline season was cancelled two weeks ago. In these past two weeks, I've had 3 late assignments, and a paper due tonight I finished only 2 hours before it was due, because I kept stopping while writing it for as long as an hour to daydream.
At this point, I'm fairly certain that having a creative outlet was massively helping to keep my daydreaming under control and keep me on top of my schoolwork. Now that I'm aware of the issue, I am working on ways to keep my daydreams under control again, but would appreciate any advice for keeping to a schedule without letting MaDD take control.
