Time management is important when it comes to studying and to keep on top on homework as well as keeping your personal life up to to date.
Questions to ask yourself when you are finding the best strategies that will work for you:
There are many ways that you can use to keep on track of all of the things that you need for your coursework, campus life, and personal life.
Some of the ways include:
Make sure you try one or many of the ways to keep organized in order to find the best way to keep your time managed. Keeping track of when your coursework is due or upcoming helps reduce stress and can help plan future activities.
Remember! You are the person responsible for your own time management.
Procrastination is delaying the things that need to be done. This is often prevalent in coursework as you have a lot to do and sometimes don't know where to begin. Sometimes procrastination is delaying a task that is the most unpleasant to do. Having the habit of procrastination can be detrimental to your coursework because it can lead to rushed or not completed work or not being able to learn at your full capacity.
Some of the things that you can do to prevent procrastination:
Using the top three approach or the daily top three approach is the idea that you determine what are the top three things that are important for that day that need to be finished. Those are the tasks that you would tackle for the day. This simple approach is seen as effective because tasks are being crossed-off on your list.
This technique is using a timer to set chunks of time in intervals of working on tasks and taking a break. This is beneficial because it reduces fatigue compared to other techniques. Breaking time down in intervals also encourages people to break longer tasks into smaller tasks that becomes more manageable.
"Eat the Frog" technique refers to doing the most unpleasant task first. The idea behind this is that the build up of anxiety and dread for this task sometimes takes more time than the actual time it would take to do the task. Dread and worry take up a lot of energy. Doing it first, you free up your energy to do the tasks you like better. All the tasks after the harder, most unpleasant, or dreaded task will seem easier in comparison.
This guide was made by the help of College Success Concise by Amy Baldwin, James Bennett, et al. and the following attachment adapted from the same.
Baldwin, Amy; Bennett, James et al. College Success Concise. Openstax. 2023 (link)