{"id":151,"date":"2007-01-22T10:33:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T02:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2007\/01\/22\/how-i-know-where-my-classes-are\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T10:33:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T02:33:59","slug":"how-i-know-where-my-classes-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2007\/01\/22\/how-i-know-where-my-classes-are\/","title":{"rendered":"How I know where my classes are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously hinted at the absurdity of Lingnan&#8217;s scheduling, but I haven&#8217;t revealed my secret for coping.  This shall not stand.<\/p>\n<p>Because I have each class once weekly (counting the tutorials separately), and because at times tutorials don&#8217;t meet, the location of my classes doesn&#8217;t imprint on me as easily as it would normally.  Even my high school&#8217;s crazy &#8220;modular&#8221; 3 day cycle times 9 period day (with duo-cycles for band sectionals) worked its way into my head after a couple weeks, but Lingnan&#8217;s classes just won&#8217;t click.  My solution: <a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.google.com\/\">Google calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I put my classes in calendar as recurring events, and set up SMS alerts.  In Hong Kong (well, pretty much everywhere outside the US and Canada, as I understand it) it&#8217;s free to receive SMS.  15 minutes before every class I get an SMS with the class name and its location.  Assuming I don&#8217;t forget to keep the text until I&#8217;ve made it to the class, no worries.<\/p>\n<p>This is overkill (and a waste of precious electrons) for a problem most people would solve with a planner, but there&#8217;s no piece of paper that I&#8217;m guaranteed to be carrying.  On the other hand, it&#8217;s easy for me to remember my mobile (partly because I&#8217;m depending on it so much for scheduling&#8230;).  It works for me, so I use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously hinted at the absurdity of Lingnan&#8217;s scheduling, but I haven&#8217;t revealed my secret for coping. This shall not stand. Because I have each class once weekly (counting the tutorials separately), and because at times tutorials don&#8217;t meet, the location of my classes doesn&#8217;t imprint on me as easily as it would normally. Even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2007\/01\/22\/how-i-know-where-my-classes-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I know where my classes are<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}