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<a href="http://ox-d.oncampusweb.com/w/1.0/rc?cs=d531479494&cb= "><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ox-d.oncampusweb.com/w/1.0/ai?auid=536881370&cs=d531479494&cb= "> <br><iframe id="d531479494" peyton list name="d531479494" src="http://ox-d.oncampusweb.com/w/1.0/afr?auid=536881373&cb= " frameBorder="0" frameSpacing="0" scrolling="no" width="260" height="90"><a href="http://ox-d.oncampusweb.com/w/1.0/rc?cs=d531479494&cb= "><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ox-d.oncampusweb.com/w/1.0/ai?auid=536881373&cs=d531479494&cb= "> <br>At Columbia where never taking an 8:40 a.m. class is a badge of honor, and where Butler s 24-hour schedule peyton list makes for many late nights it s easy to lose, or not care about, one s morning routine. Breakfast peyton list becomes brunch, and getting ready happens in a 15-minute flurry between an alarm and a 10:10 class. <br>For me, a former Spectator editor, mornings were what you hoped you never met after a long night in the office. But as I gear up for post grad life, there s a part of me that s jealous of people who have the time, will, and energy to start their day before they start their day. <br>A recent Harvard Business peyton list Review post reinforced the feeling that I m missing out on something by having a morning scramble instead of a morning routine. The article, pulling from a new book called Daily Rituals: peyton list How Artists Work, documents the seemingly mundane, if regular, elements to many great thinkers days: minimal distractions, walks, and a division between important work and busywork. <br>I reached out to different corners of campus and found two administrators and two students willing to let me tag along on their morning routines in an attempt to find out what I ve been missing out on. <br>It takes quite an effort to get out of bed to meet Terry Martinez at 7 a.m., but I make it. When I get to the corner of 112th Street and Broadway, the interim dean of student affairs is in front of Tom s in a neon pink jacket, tying her shoes, admiring a neighbor s dog, and ready to go. <br> Not at all! she laughs. No. I was kind of hesitant because I usually just put my headphones in and don t talk to anyone. This is my quiet time. I was wondering, Am I even going to have anything to say? I don t like to talk before the double digits. That s like reading time, email time, quiet time. <br>Martinez is referring to the calming 39-minute walk we are embarking on through peyton list Riverside Park, down to 96th, and back to her apartment building that she takes to ease into the day. It becomes abundantly clear to me how much she values this opportunity to be a silent peyton list participant in the sidewalk ballet of Morningside Heights, before she wades into the bureaucracy as the senior administrator most entrenched in the daily lives of undergraduates at Columbia peyton list College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science. <br>Martinez said in November that she was not intent on staying peyton list in the interim position permanently. I like my other job, day-to-day on-the-ground contact peyton list with students, she told Spec last semester. Then, she surprised students this month when she announced she had taken a student affairs position at Johns Hopkins, following in her predecessor Kevin Shollenberger s footsteps. She will report directly peyton list to Shollenberger at Hopkins and oversee the construction peyton list of new residence halls there. She hasn t spoken publicly about why she s leaving, and we avoid the topic on our walk. In fact, we barely discuss Columbia at all. I get the sense that this walk is often the only escape she has from the chaos of Lerner Hall. <br> There s a men s soccer league, peyton list so that s where those guys are going down there, she says, pointing to a dozen guys in tracksuits. Later, we pass a gentleman with a large collie. That guy, he has this really old dog. He walks slowly because the dog is so old. Today he s got two dogs, which surprises Martinez. Look at that I ve never seen that one before. peyton list <br>Before we met at Tom s, Martinez had only a very brief routine that morning. I check my email first unfortunately just to see if there s anything that happened overnight, she sighs. peyton list Martinez has responded to many a Spectator inquiry in the middle of the night before. <br>As mental fodder for the walk, she says she likes to read a short article or two before leaving peyton list the apartment. I get Inside Higher Education in the morning, and then I check my Twitter feed, because there s always some great Harvard Business Review or something like that something I can read really quickly and if there s nothing else I think about that, she says. <br>Maybe Martinez prefers the solitary peyton list stroll because peyton list it s the closest thing she has to home when she s in Manhattan. peyton list She <br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LNlztz6mVjE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>
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