How to Manage Your Time in College or Graduate School
The flexibility of college and graduate school life can be a wolf in sheep's clothing. Use these techniques to manage your time well.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately challenging
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Palm Handheld Organizers
- Alarm Clocks
- Wall Calendars
- Personal Organizers
- Schedule Management Software
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Plan your class schedule, as much as possible, so that your classes are consecutive. This avoids potentially inefficient downtime in between classes.
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Get a daily planner and plot out each day's classes and errands the night before. Schedule your errands to avoid backtracking.
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Use downtime to do schoolwork. Finish that chapter on Aristotle while you're waiting outside your professor's office.
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Keep a textbook or other schoolwork with you throughout the day. You never know when you might have time to kill in line at the post office or in the doctor's waiting room.
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Avoid distractions that get in the way of your schoolwork - use fun activities as rewards when you've finished your day's work.
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Make sure you schedule in a healthy amount of fun time. Efficiency is useless if it drives you insane!
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Tips & Warnings
If you commute to campus via public transit, do schoolwork on the way.
Get a computer if you can. It will save you a lot of time.
Wear a watch.
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Comments
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Mar 13, 2006
Start with whatever you found most difficult. Get help if you struggle. If you still can't do it, leave it and accept that you can't do everything. Go on to the next hardest thing. This way your revision gets easier as you approach the exam and you are not putting off revising because of being unwilling to tackle one thing that you find impossible. -
Mar 13, 2006
Start with whatever you found most difficult. Get help if you struggle. If you still can't do it, leave it and accept that you can't do everything. Go on to the next hardest thing. This way your revision gets easier as you approach the exam and you are not putting off revising because of being unwilling to tackle one thing that you find impossible.
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Nov 22, 2005
I have run into problems carrying my textbook with me every day [too heavy, forget to take it with me after class, etc.], but since I have my notebook with me anyway I can use downtime to review my class notes, rewrite them so they're clearer/more legible, and summarize them so when test time comes I already have the key points listed for easier review.
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Nov 22, 2005
Do not get behind or you will never catch up. Not procrastinating is the key to success!
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Nov 22, 2005
Try to avoid distractions by preventing them. This includes music, phone calls, friends talking, etc. Make a special place for studying, whether that means a corner or a table. Keep your eye on the clock too. Make "flash cards." Make your time limited!
