Homework, clubs, jobs, game days, and more… college is… A LOT. From my experience thus far, the most challenging aspect to maintaining a gpa (and a social life) in college is not because of lack of opportunity, but rather lack of time.
Classes are hard but staying organized can be even harder. While it may seem simple, time management for college students truly is the key to success. A schedule builder will help you organize your school work and manage your time better, making the craziness that is college a little less chaotic and a lot more rewarding.
Whether it be planning out time for homework, blocking out study time for an exam, scheduling weekly club meetings, or fitting in a night with friends, college is all about time management skills.
Reading this article, you are probably thinking… of course time management is key. You know that it’s important. This is not new information and you are right, but do you know how to manage your time? That is the hard part, but it is also where monday.com comes in.
According to Forbes, their top 4 most powerful time management strategies are as follows:
- Use a to-do-list
- Create a time audit
- Set a time limit to each task
- Plan ahead
1. Using a To-do-List:
You will never be able to have effective time management without first knowing what you need to get done. That is why one of the first steps to maintaining your gpa (and life) in college is to create a to-do list.
To-do-lists are easy and helpful ways to keep track of your most important tasks and prioritize what you need to accomplish and when it needs to be done.
However, to-do lists are always changing and being manipulated to fit your busy and evolving schedule. monday.com understands the “liveness” of schedules, which is why monday.com’s schedule maker templates are editable and live at all moments.
With the click of a button you can view all of your assignments in a timeline or filter your assignments by subject or due date. It’s easy to describe the wonders of working with a live to-do-list, but even better to watch the magic in action.
2. Creating a time audit:
How can you use your time wisely without understanding where your time is going? You may think it only takes 30 minutes to finish an assignment, but in actuality it’s taking you an hour or even two.
Knowing how long each assignment, study session, or task requires of your time is one step closer to being able to manage your time efficiently and effectively.
With monday.com time tracking is easy. Not only can you plan out each assignment you have, but you can also record how long it takes you to complete it.
Look at this example here, whether you want to add in sessions manually or press record to automatically measure how long you spend on one task, it is easy to time track and stay on task with monday.com’s Time Tracking Feature.
You can even import your data to excel to truly get into the nitty gritty detail of where your time is going and how to make the most of it.
3. Setting a timeline:
Once you know how long tasks take to complete, the next step to managing your time is creating a schedule so that you can know how and when you’ll fit everything into your busy life.
With monday.com’s Timeline View, scheduling is practically done for you.
As you can see in the video, once you input your class assignments, quizzes, club meetings, and maybe even fit in some time for social media breaks, the timeline view will automatically let you see what your daily schedule will look like and how busy you will be.
The Timeline View allows even the busiest student to easily plan ahead, stay on top of his or her work, and most importantly maintain a life and a gpa in college.
4. Planning ahead:
You wouldn’t show up to a basketball game without a basketball right? Just like you wouldn’t show up to a test without studying.
Being successful in college is all about planning ahead.
If you know there is a big football game on Saturday then you’ll want to plan accordingly to make sure you study ahead of time, knowing your weekend will be jam packed with tailgates. Planning ahead, whether it be short term or long term, is easy with monday.com.
monday.com’s student life schedule template is perfect for planning ahead and staying on top of work in each of your classes.
But college is definitely not just about classes….
This student org template is just the tool to prepare and plan for all your club events from current member and alumni lists to upcoming speaker events and meetings.
Manage your club’s active members with ease
In greek life? monday.com has that covered too with a greek life template for all things rush.
But… in order to get that college degree and make those classic college memories, it takes more than just being prepared in the short term; you must also plan ahead for the long term.
monday.com understands this and makes it easy to track and see your progress on all of your academic requirements throughout your entire college life from majors to minors and even distribution requirements.
Relieved, excited, amazed, impressed… Yes, all of these feelings are valid. One article giving you all of the solutions to keep you and your gpa happy… I know it’s a LOT, but so is college which is why monday.com is here to help.
Time management may seem daunting at first, but simply following these time management tips: using a to-do-list, setting timelines, and planning ahead goes a long way. monday.com is your free online customizable schedule maker that will help you having a life and a gpa in college.
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