Surveys: For the Light Hearted?

Quick Survey: Have you, over the last week, made a survey on stress?

Well if you answered 'yes' then give yourself a big high five and reward yourself with an ice-cream sandwich, or some other kind of ice cream to treat yourself for your good work.

This week we all went onto the site Survey Monkey and designed a fun little survey on stress. It was good fun, navigating the site to add questions, and then making the questions! It was almost that fun that I'm surprised it isn't illegal!

Survey Monkey? This is BANANAS!

 In all seriousness though, Survey Monkey was actually quite enjoyable to use, and the interface was simple to navigate. I personally found the process quite easy to use. I can definitely see the practicality of such a site - the surveys are easily accessible no matter where you are, and the surveys themselves are quick to answer and easy to use.

There were so many options available - if you were willing to pay for them. Being a student with limited funds I wouldn't pay for the advanced features, but at the same time I don't have a real reason (other than for my own personal amusement) to pay for a target audience. The results that we are looking for will still apply with the limited numbers that we have, mostly because of our age and gender differences. Though having thousands of people run at my beck and call to answer the survey that I wrote about which flavor of ice-cream is more tasty would be amusing, for someone in my shoes, it would be a complete waste of time.

Though don't pretend that you wouldn't take part of that survey.

There are so many resources out there that deal with stress - its almost amazing to think that people deal with it at all. But I can understand why. Looking at wonderful motivated posters about how you should prioritize your workload and make a more effective schedule are good thoughts - in theory. Once you've gotten to week six of the term, you've already developed a routine of procrastination that is almost impossible to get past. As the stress levels rise, and you're wondering how on Earth you let those assignments get so late, you just find yourself more stressed. You wind yourself up then trying to figure out where to start until the easiest thing to do is to eat that ice-cream you were offered earlier.

I know I stress. I stress a lot about my assignments and completing themselves, and I know that I need to work on my stress management, and my effective time management before I'm going to get anything done.