by Bobby Coles

Created on: July 28, 2009   Last Updated: May 07, 2012

The best time management skills for college students involve having a planner (daily, weekly, monthly), and creating a schedule for yourself that allows you the opportunity to still have a vibrant social life. College students live in the now, and this can lead to procrastination, learned helplessness, and an inability to be prepared. College students should be responsible and accountable for their own actions, and suffer any consequences that stem as a direct result of their lack of time management skills.

Time management skills are difficult to master, as evidenced by the myriad self-help gurus infiltrating the market with schemes and plans to help you keep track of your time. In college, this lack of time management skills is omnipresent. These skills are mandatory, especially if you are planning on trying to balance a social life, work, and relationships.

A college student should endeavour to create a weekly, monthly, and semester long calendar, and adamantly fill it in with anything and everything. By marking down every little assignment, date, work schedule, and concert or pub crawl, then there will be a heightened awareness of time.

College students should maintain every aspect of school, and do so with reckless abandon. No stones should be left unturned, as there are far too many things to see and do while you are in college. A helpful hint with the calendar is to write in due dates that are a few days ahead of schedule. This will give you that semblance of grace, and will provide you with some extra freedom and mobility, forcing you to start an assignment earlier than you intended.

If you always make certain to have your assignments done, and you are well prepared for any tests or exams ahead of time, you will be putting yourself in a better position for academic success. Another great strategy for time management is to study a little bit every night, even if that simply means re-reading the lecture notes from the day, as this will refresh your memory, and will make it less stressful come exam week. Your mind will more readily remember facts and statistics if it has seen them on more than one occasion.

As you enter the post-secondary world of college, time management skills become far more important than they ever have in the past. Budgeting your time is not an easy task to endeavour, and you must be adept at moderating your schedule so as to include all of your favourite things. You must make sure to spend time home, studying, doing homework, dating,

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