How To Manage Our Time As a Student ?

2011-01-07T06:49:00.000-08:00

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Today, let us talk about how to manage our time as a student. One of the first things that student learn is that there is never enough time in the day. How can you keep yourself sane when you're overloaded with homework, research, and a life? You should begin with using an academic calendar to keep track of your days. However, time management entails more than keeping a calendar. It is requires identifying your obligations, carefully considering their importance, and making choices about how to use your time.

Prioritize Your Tasks

Once you prepare your lists you may find that you have much more to do than you ever realized and feel pressured for time. Breathe. Relax. You don't have to do it all now. Some of it can wait a little while, more of it can wait even longer, and some of it may never get done. That's okay if you prioritize your tasks.

What is truly important to you? School work or homework is important, but some tasks are more important than others. For example, suppose your lecturer assigns weekly short papers. You might feel pressured to complete these small papers before working on your large term paper for the same class. Prioritize! How much are the weekly papers worth to your grade as compared with the term paper? Many students spend a lot of time working on tasks, like short weekly papers, that account for a small percentage of their grade, for example 15%, over working on term papers and big projects that account for a much larger proportion of their grade, such as 50%. Prioritize to ensure that you're directing your effort to what matters. This is true in school but also in your personal life.

Use Multiple To-Do Lists

At this stage in your life it is likely that one to-do list isn't enough. Use multiple lists to organize tasks by topic. For example, you might maintain separate lists for each area of your life, such as home (for household tasks), social (for lists of friends and family to call or contact on Facebook, Twitter), and school (obviously, for maintaining lists of school-related tasks, like assignments and meetings with lecturers).

Make Use of Wasted Time

Carry pocket work to make use of that time that would otherwise be wasted. Carry a short reading assignment or flash cards for studying. Or use the time to write in your planner and organize yourself. Ten minutes here, fifteen minutes there, it all adds up and you'll find that you can get more done.

There are more ways that we can use how to manage our time especially as a student like us. But what I've wrote just now are 3 important steps that we can take to manage our time. You guys can try it from now, either it is useful or not. Good Luck ! :D

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How To Manage Our Time As a Student ?