Time Management and Students Go Hand in Hand
There are really are real courageous stories behind every college students’ effort to balance their studies with a long list of other important responsibilities.
Here is a particular situation of one female student faced with daunting tasks that may easily be given up by the faint-hearted. She is enrolled in college and is run a small business.
She is also a single mother to a baby and they are living with a roommate who has annoying habits. As she goes along, day to day with her studies, business, and household and mothering chores, she only reiterates one thing, time is really essential.
Many other college students like her are doing balancing acts between responsibility to finish their education and their daily struggle to make a living and continue on “living”. Others, while toggling other demands on their time, like extra-curricular or non-academic tasks and part-time jobs still have to find time for their family and friends.
Indeed time is gold for these kind of highly motivated students. Proper time management is what they need in order to achieve lasting results in their endeavors. If a student’s day is cramped and limiting, this may bring on stress.
Stress is often the result of failed or lack of proper time management. A stressful and vexed atmosphere usually follow once you failed to provide much time in accomplishing or completing certain goals and tasks.
Stressful attitude affects the body and mind immensely. Once stress invades through a student's body, we might lose the knack to achieving and seeking our goals.
Communication and social skills also suffer a great deal. Once this happen, we might as well be wasting, not only time but also money. College tuitions do not come cheap. We must make sure that once we commit ourselves to college and other responsibilities along with it, we had better be prepared to carry out the demands, otherwise money, time and opportunity for a good future is lost.
As college students, we must not wander far from our ultimate goals. If we are not achieving what we set out to do in the first place, then it may lead to a disappointing failure.
College does not only require us to get up in the morning and meet class schedules. It also requires us to meet the set tuition payments and level up with the expectations your professors/instructors set for you.
Many college students still struggle in classes because they still have not the courage to maintain a time management scheme that will allow them flexibility. There are in fact, general time management measures, which will give you a chance to level off your abilities, and help you gauge how far you think you should go.
Of course, the common student have full-time courses as part of their effort to achieve a long-term goal as quickly as possible. However, this is an ideal setting if you have the time and resources.
Before enrolling yourself for a course, check what schedule requires your presence. Considerations must be done in case you are working either a part-time or a full-time job. Depending on what type of job you are handling, you can employ different time management methods in order to accommodate your studies.
If you have a part-time job, you can lay out a plan to fit your schedule. Most University and community colleges already offer calendars, planners and clocks as tools to have you set up a schedule.
You can also negotiate with the administrators to consider your schedule. Applying for classes that work around your job commitment is also a good move. Meanwhile, those with full-time jobs can still think about college by wisely taking up online courses.
The good news is that not everyone is struggling with time challenges. Highly productive people effectively and efficiently handle all the things they set out to do.
They have ample know how on tackling big projects and how to accomplish them without feeling overwhelmed. They seek for a sense of fulfillment and balance in their life, and are setting and achieving their most important goals.
Always we must know that being a student in college is a venture that requires indomitable will of the mind and body. Time management skills may be present, but if there is no proper method or strategy used, that corresponds to one’s specific situation, then it is useless.
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