THESIS STATEMENT: Time management in college takes effort

Do you sleep?

Yeah, me neither.

Other than random bouts of serious boozing, terribly difficult finals weeks and life-dream discovery, college seems to be about one thing: time management. Or more simply, getting stuff done.

I am terrible at it. I pity my friends who are constantly picking up the pieces of my scattered personhood after I spill all my obligations on the floor because I?m too weak to carry them.

In a world of pressure for students to always be more qualified, more marketable and more well-rounded, we?re pulled in so many directions that we can?t walk straight in one. The more mistakes I make in this area, the more I learn a few key elements of completing tasks ? on time, on a full night?s sleep and without wanting to kill yourself.

If you don?t have time, say no. If you have almost enough time, say no. If you have adequate time, think about it for a while before you say yes.

This is a matter of priorities. What?s important to you? Write it down. Consider if what you?ve written needs adjustment before you start following it. Then compare every obligation you have against this list, and try to drop anything that takes up your time that doesn?t fit the list. Maybe it?s quitting a club or a sport, or maybe it?s just getting rid of some time-wasting games on your phone. This is the most important step, because it creates more time and more space for what you love.

Take care of yourself. Get ?health? somewhere near the top of that priority list you made. Turns out all that advice about exercise and good eating is spot-on when it comes to time management. If you sleep well, move your body and fuel yourself excellently, you?ll feel better ? I?d bet money on it. Feeling better means having a better attitude and outputting better work, which all sound like great solutions to me.

Never be optimistic about projects. Read: don?t procrastinate. Always expect something to go horribly wrong and budget time and money to handle it. It?s much better to end up with a much lovelier and timelier product then send yourself or your group, teacher or client into an anxious tailspin because everything went wrong. The best solution here is organization, and building a good habit of actually using your Google Calendar or the reminders on your phone.

Get paid. This is especially for those of us in more creative majors who are often faced with the opportunity to put a lot of time into something for no money. Don?t join every project and group just to slap it on your r?sum?. Spending hours of your life just to get your name on something will get old. People will pay you for good work; you just have to find them. Also, don?t undervalue your work. Don?t let people weasel you out of getting paid well because you are young, you?re clearly desperate for work or they?re just jerks who run business like kindergarten playground bartering.

In all of this, give yourself a little grace and space to breathe, because no matter how hard you work at not working too hard, stuff catches up to us. It?s a collegiate curse that we?re all working to break. It?s just easier to put the tension in just the right spot when you?re not pulled in so many directions.

Source: http://www.bsudailynews.com/thesis-statement-time-management-in-college-takes-effort-1.2746821

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