Freeman Lee

**Life Balance**

Rayment, Joel. "Work, Study, Life... How Do You
Maintain a Balance? - Kirana." Kirana. April 22, 2014. (Accessed December
7, 2015).

http://www.kirana.edu.au/work-study-life-maintain-balance/.

This
article modifies the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle by balancing
between work, study and life while the author supports an individual with more self-regulation
and organization, such
as time management, stress-level management, and the motivation by setting
goals. It is necessary to establish it by firstly understanding the workload
corresponding to the leisure time.

The most significant advice
for is the ability of time-management. While more independency is essential as
being a university student, allocating the work well to maximize the usage of
time can increase our productivity efficiently.

Deering, Sophie. "How Can Sleep Affect Your
Career?" Undercover Recruiter. September 26, 2015. (Accessed December 9,
2015).

http://theundercoverrecruiter.com/sleep-affect-productivity/.

The author
proclaims various tips answering the most common questions to people who stay
up late for work. She points out the basic knowledge that everybody should
know, like the basic amount of time for sleep, sign of sleep deprivation and
how it would affect our productivity and etc.

This
article is useful while, as modern people, many of us neglect the importance of
sleeping because of huge workloads from schools and jobs. By taking these advices,
readers can acknowledge the common problems that they might usually have
ignored. It is useful because of its description of the way to boost our performance
to work.

**Choice of Program**

"How to Choose Your Program." University Study.
(Accessed December 7, 2015). http://www.universitystudy.ca/plan-for-university/how-to-choose-your-program/.

The
detailed introduction from this article gives some significant perceptions for university
students to pick the most suitable programs regarding everyone’s preference and
ability. It mainly describes the importance of the consideration of the
future-career.

This article is helpful
for me as a first-year university student because of our mobility to switch
between programs for the up-coming years. It notifies me with some of its great
idea, such as taking advice from seniors and family, that I do not acknowledge.

Mumby, Dave. "How To Choose The Right Graduate School
Program." *Next Scientist*. March
13, 2014. (Accessed December 10, 2015).

http://www.nextscientist.com/choose-graduate-school-program/.

Dave Mumby,
who has a Ph.D degree provides some professional advices with its detailed
explanation reminds the most common attention on several important categories to
readers. The two attentions that he has focused on are the specialization on supervisor
and the potential talents that we ourselves are capable of.

The article
establishes some critical questions for us to reflect on prior choosing the
absolute right choice for ourselves. In my opinion, this article is worth to
read because of the crucial analysis by the author.

**Entry of work field**

"5 Things to Know When Entering the Job Market as a
College Grad." LDS Employment Resource Service. (Accessed December 7,
2015).

https://www.ldsjobs.org/ers/ct/articles/job-search-recent-graduate?lang=eng.

This
article advocates the five necessary considerations to the entry of job market
as a college graduate while many people struggle on finding a suitable job. It suggests
ideas like looking for opportunities to network, setting meaningful goals, having
realistic expectations and etc.

In order to
further develop our career, taking the advices from this article altogether give
us a preparation in our future expansion of career. Therefore, I found this
really beneficial due to its rational tips.

**Setting long-term goals**

Tolbert, Kristen. "Learn To Tackle Your Long-Term Goals
Today." Looksharp Blog. September 2, 2014. (Accessed December 7, 2015).

https://www.looksharp.com/blog/learn-to-tackle-long-term-goals-today.

This short
article gives readers advices to judge and locate their long-term goals according
to their career situation. Moreover, Tolbert points out the lack of clarity and
direction by people in order to set a reasonable long-term goals. It includes
the thoughts about bringing the goals into active steps, the importance of
setting a goal and the differentiation of goals.

I think
this article is surprisingly helpful as the author has well displayed the real
problems for readers to set their aims and the contribution of the instructions
for readers to follow is practical. For example, the “monthly actions” section
can support readers in actions. With his good explanations, the advice work
well altogether.

Baader, Wanda. "How to Actively Set Goals."
Strategize Your Success. July 25, 2015. (Accessed December 7, 2015).

http://strategizeyoursuccess.com/how-to-actively-set-goals/.

This is an article
similar to the previous one, which also provides some tips to set goals. Baader
proclaims that ambition is a necessity for a successful individual to look
forward to. Meanwhile, it tells that we should step out of our “comfort zone”
and try to give ourselves time to find the goals gradually.

The
essential recommendations contributed by the author are considerable and
significant before the adventure towards our life goals. I found this
significant because of its coverage of the three tips that match my internal
thoughts among setting our targets and actively carrying out the the plans towards
our life goals.