‘’Use your time wisely to become successful in college’’ is the college advice that this blog will be about. Students are often told that they need to use their time wisely in college. However, it’s not an easy task to do. Students should follow this advice to ease the struggle in college.
College is the time for students to learn how to plan out priorities and opportunities that come along with college life. According to Tami Strang’s article ”Effects of College Life on Students’’ Time-Management Skills’’, After a couple of days starting college, students realize that the work college requires, family responsibilities and job, make it extremely important to plan and use their time efficiently. Time management is being able to do all activities in allocated time.

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Using time wisely is the key to academic success. In addition, planning and creating a solid schedule will make a difference in students’ lives. Using time effectively might be hard for students especially students who just made the transit from high school to college.
There are some tips to make the struggle easier. Just as Kelci Lynn Lucier, the author of “College Stress Solutions” stated, Get and use a calendar- this might seem unnecessary, but it is useful. It can be a paper calendar. It can be on the phone or in a journal. Regardless of what kind, students need to have a timeline.
Write down everything- What time to go to bed, when to do homework? When to study? Write down everything in one place.
Keep trying new systems- meet new people, share experiences. Change things around until feeling perfectly fine.
Allow some flexibility; expect the unexpected things to happen, leave some room in the calendar to move things around.
Plan ahead- plan when to do assignments, projects, early as possible. Due dates appear faster than expected. Students should do their work soon because the closer they are to the due date the more stressed they will be.
First, students must avoid common time wasters including social media, internet, long phone conversations, extracurricular activities. They also need to reduce anxiety and stress and build confidence and motivation. On top of that students must learn how to say no to others, as they need to handle their task first.

Students who spend more time in classes tend to be successful than those who spend more time on other activities and less time in class. Likewise, Time management and GPA have a direct relationship. Jordan Thibodeaux, Aaron Deutsch, and Anastasia Kitsantas in their ”First-Year College Students’ Time Use Relations With Self-Regulation and GPA” article mentioned that students who report spending most of their time away from campus pursuing work typically have lower GPAs than students who pay most of their time on campus, and the former report having lower expectations about academic success (Nonis et al., 2006).
Most students enroll in entry classes to learn self-regulation study and good time management skill. However, it takes them beyond the first semester to get things right.
Students have different perspectives on their time management skills in college though.
A study done by Tami Strang illustrated that, a large percentage of students said that they do not struggle more in college with time management, an overwhelming majority (88%) reported that they had changed their methods of managing their time, underlining that college is, indeed, a very different environment than high school. Plenty of college students find that the experience is not necessarily more difficult, it is just different.
Also, college requires self-motivation, no one is going to be there checking on students. College is all on students. No one is going to push no one. Parents do not continue to remind students to do homework or projects after high school. Students need to motivate themselves and push through. However, for some student, this made time management easier probably because of the feeling of independence and taking full responsibilities rather than being told what to do.
On top of that, Students have more freedom in college than high school. Students get to set their schedule. They can be partying, staying on the bed all day long watching Netflix, or whatever they want to do. However, they must use that freedom to achieve their long-term goals.

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Jordan, T., Aaron, D., Kitsantas A., Winsler A., “First-Year College Students` Time Use: Relations With Self-Regulation and GPA,” Journal of Advanced Academics. (2017) Vol.28 Issue 1, p5-27
Lynn. “Steps for Strong Time Management for College Students.” ThoughtCo, Jul. 5, 2018, thoughtco.com/strong-time-management-for-college-students-793226.
Tami Strang, ‘’ effects of college life on students’ time management skills.’’ Cengage Student Engagement,Aug.10, 2015, blog.cengage.com/effects-of-college-life-on-students-time-management-skills.
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