Communication and the age of emails

Emails. All of them. Participating in this internship has cause my daily email counts to skyrocket and extended 3-4x more than I was getting per day. In addition, I have various other campus organizations and, as an instructor, also plenty of emails from students. All of this has led me to completely reorganizing my email inbox in an effort to better manage and communicate with higher priority and efficiency. My internship doesn't always involve me sitting in an office and oftentimes we will communicate daily via an email chain with 12-15 people. This makes it incredibly difficult to manage communications and even participate in the discussion when I am also in the process of going to class or working at my job. By sorting my emails appropriately and not having one giant inbox, I have learned a much better way to manage my professional/academic communications. In addition, I have also utilized the Outlook Calendar to keep a schedule for meetings/events/classes/etc. It has become very effective in helping me better manage my communication, and my time.