Time management planning ensures that college students have time for their studies without losing sleep or giving up their social life. But you may have less time for discretionary activities than in the past. The goal of time management is to prioritize the activities that you need to schedule time for and spend less time on non-essential activities. Another goal is to learn how to use the hours you do have as effectively as possible, especially the study hours. For example, if you're a typical college freshman who plans to study for three hours in an evening but then procrastinates, gets caught up in a conversation, loses time to checking e-mail and text messages, and listens to loud music while reading a textbook, then maybe you spent four hours 'studying' but got only two hours of actual work done. So you end up behind and feeling like you're still studying way too much. The result of good time management is to actually get three hours of studying done in three hours and have time for your life as well. Special note for students who work. note for students who work. You may have almost no discretionary time at all left after all your 'must - do' activities. If that is the case, you may have overextended yourself - a situation that inevitably will lead to problems. You can't sleep two hours less every night for the whole school year, for example, without becoming ill or unable to concentrate well on work and school. It is better to recognize this situation now rather than set yourself up for a very difficult term and possible failure. If you cannot cut the number of hours for work or other obligations, see your academic advisor right away. It is better to take fewer classes and succeed than to take more classes than you have time for and risk failure.

### Calendar Planners

Calendar planners and to-do lists are effective ways to organize your time. There are different types of academic planners in the forms of print, computer calendars, and app calendars. There is no right system. Decide which one works best for you and use it consistently. Calendars and planners help you look ahead and write in important dates and deadlines to help you keep track of them and remember them. They help you see the bigger picture of when an assignment is due and when you need to schedule time to complete that deadline. For example, if you have a 10- page paper due, you will need to schedule time to research, write an annotated bibliography, write an outline, write the rough draft, make edits to your rough draft, and finally submit your complete paper. It is important to schedule these tasks in your planner for multiple days as it would be impossible to complete this successfully on the day it is due. You can easily do this by choosing time slots in your weekly planner over several days that you will commit to studying for this test. You don't need to fill every time slot, or to schedule every single thing that you do, but the more carefully and consistently you use your planner, the more successfully will you manage your time. Though a planner is a great resource to keep track of major due dates, it often does not have room to contain every single thing that you may need to accomplish in a day. For these items it is best to utilize a to-do list, which may be kept on a separate page in the planner. If you're surprised by this amount of planning, you may be the kind of student who used to think, 'The paper's due Friday-I have enough time Thursday afternoon, so I'll write it then.' What's wrong with that? First, college work is more demanding than many first-year students realize, and the instructor expects higher-quality work than you can churn out quickly without revising. Second, if you are tired on Thursday because you didn't sleep well Wednesday night, you may be much