Time Management Stay moving forward by Jeremy Wing Get and use a calendar. It can be a paper calendar. It can be your cell phone. It can be a PDA. No matter what kind it is, though, make sure you have one. Write down everything in one place. Schedule when you plan to sleep, when you are going to do your laundry, when you're going to call your parents. The crazier your schedule gets, the more important this becomes. Don't forget to schedule in time to relax and breathe. Just because your calendar goes from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. doesn't mean you can.
Procrastination is a college students poison, do not do it. Don't procrastinate. Do you know you have an ugly midterm/paper/lab report/ research project due in, say, one month? Don't wait until the last week to get started, space things out a bit so you manage your time and workload in a steady flow instead of one gigantic wave. No matter how on top of things you are, life just happens sometimes which means, of course, that you'll get sick, your computer will crash, your roommate will have some kind of drama, and you'll lose your cell phone. Good time management often Online students might want to schedule time requires the ability to prioritize and reprioritize with their kids or loved ones as a break from and reprioritize again as things come up. And the rigors of coursework to avoid becoming overwhelmed. Things inevitably come up that having good time management skills means that, when things shift around, you'll be able to you weren't expecting. You may not have deal with it instead of suddenly finding yourself known that your roommate's birthday is this week, and you certainly don't want to miss the in a crisis. celebrations! Leave room in your calendar so that you can move things around a little when needed. Do you have a large research paper due the last week of the semester? Work backward in your calendar and figure out how much time you need to write it, how much time you'll need to research it, and how much time you'll need to pick your topic. If you think you'll need six weeks for the entire project, work backward from the due date and schedule the time into your calendar before it's too late.