As a student, you have to balance academics, social events, extracurricular activities and maybe even a part-time job. Learning to manage your time can help you deal with the new freedoms (and challenges). At the start of each semester, add all exam dates and assignment deadlines from your syllabi to a calendar. Utilize your calendar daily and add other significant dates that will impact your study time.

Using your calendar and daily schedule, block out time each day to study, review class material or complete assignments. Distributed practice, studying for short periods of time over a few days or weeks, is a proven study strategy. Attempt to do something for each class every day. You’ll learn the material deeper and help fight procrastination.

Take control

If you are in control of your calendar, you will be able to complete your assignments and stay on top of your coursework. The following are steps to getting control of your calendar:

1)     On the same day each week, plan out your schedule for the week.

2)     Go through each class and write down what you’d like to get completed for each class that week.

3)     Look at your calendar and determine how many hours you have, to complete your work.

4)     Determine whether your list can be completed in the amount of time that you have available. (You may
        want to put the amount of time expected to complete each assignment.) Make adjustments as needed.

5)     Write into your calendar when you plan to get assignments completed.

6)     Before going to bed each night, make your plan for the next day.
        Waking up with a plan will make you more productive.