Grad School & Google Calendar

August 28th, 2006

History: I started out using Google calendar to keep the wife aware of my travel schedule. Since my profession keeps me traveling, I needed a way to share my work schedule without giving her access to my company’s corporate calendar of course. As time went on, I imported different public calendars: US Holidays, Class Schedules, etc. This is all fairly standard as I was merely blocking out the time.

I’ve used Backpack, Basecamp, and several other “online systems” to manage my classwork in the past. My typical workflow was to maintain a list or page for each class while breaking down each week into individual to do items: Read Chapter 2, Write Case 1, etc. Read the rest of this entry »