Certainly, you don't want to waste your precious hours on following the developments in a disorderly fashion and miss important deadlines, confuse interview times, or forget to follow up as a result.

当然，你也不想浪费宝贵时间去随波逐流，从而错过重要的截止日期、弄错面试时间，或者忘记跟进重要事情的结果。

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You don't want to waste your precious hours on following the developments in a disorderly fashion and miss important deadlines, confuse interview times, or forget to follow up a result.

你不想把宝贵的时间浪费在混乱无序地跟踪事态发展上，不想错过重要的截止日期、弄错面试时间，或者忘记跟进结果。

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If you are disorganized and don't keep a schedule you are likely to forget tasks and miss deadlines.

如果你做事没有条理而且没有按计划表行事，那么你将会更容易忘记任务并错过截止期限。

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If you miss those deadlines, your options for contesting a change to your return could be limited.

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Unlike journalists covering a specific beat, with deadlines and quotas to meet, I feel no anxiety if I miss important developments, and I feel no urge to compete for and break big stories.

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