The Importance Of Time Management

A High schooler’s transition to college life can be difficult since time management becomes a major priority towards success. In other words, it is up to the student to finish assignments on time. As a previous high school student and now a college student, time management has become a constant concern of mine. My time management was significantly better in high school than college because I didn’t have hard assignments so I didn’t develop strategies for good time management. I wasn’t ready for the package of responsibility when I took my first steps as a UC Davis student. I was accustom to having assignments that didn’t require studying in high school, therefore, college homework became hard to manage. My high school strategy was to procrastinate I would wait till the last minute to finish an assignment, correspondingly I develop bad student strategies which soon led to consequences as a student in a UC. One of the consequences was developing an

In order for me to manage my time more effectively, I started to write down my assignments and goals in my agenda. Having a visual of when due dates were coming helped me to be more aware of when to start my homework. If I know that a drawing for my art class is due on a Thursday I would finish the assignment on Tuesday. Besides writing assignments, I have started to arrange when and how I will finish my assignments. I got this idea from an article “By Popular Demand: Time Management for High School and College Students” by Laura Stack. Stack points out some key actions that would help a student improve their time management like “map out the path from where you are now to where you want to be.” I was able to relate to what Stack said through her writing since I lack organization on managing my assignments.I began with small steps writing down my goal of the day. Soon I found that writing down my goals was less