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Scheduling your week
Just like they told you in 6th grade, organising your time will eventually become your greatest asset as you’re trying to survive uni. Here are some tips on how to do it.
- Overview of the semester: The first week of classes in a semester is largely dedicated to explaining the contents of the course. Once you’re back in your study space, my advice is to write down every assignment and its due date, everything you have to do (yes, readings too) and turn in. It will give you a bird’s eye view of what you have to accomplish and make it easier to distribute your time.
- Weekly schedule: One way to organize your time, including your weekend, is making a schedule for the week. Again, the first step is writing down all you need to do, academically and not: Classes, extracurriculars, meals, showers, sleep, any stray tasks… And then assign them a time slot in your day, which will be divided into half-hours.
- By hand or on Excel, build a table with a column for each day of the week and a row for each half hour in your day and assign a color to each type of task.
- Write in the things you can’t miss, such as class, work and assignments. Then schedule your personal tasks around them.
- The last thing you will write in is your studying times, which will be scheduled in the remaining free time around obligations and needs. Don’t forget to leave some genuine free time to avoid burnout and take care of yourself.
- Productive weekends: Weekends are the only time during the week university students universally don’t have classes, so they simultaneously become the only time we have to recharge and the most important time slots for getting things done. You have to be smart planning so that you can get both in.
- Address your needs. The priority for the weekend should be catching up on sleep and dealing with academic burnout. Try to sleep more than 8 hours if your body is begging you to, and save some time to dedicate to your hobbies, unwinding, and seeing friends.
- Make a plan. You only need to do this once a month. Take out your overview of the semester and write down everything that’s due in the upcoming month, as well as your non-academia-related to-dos. Break them down into the smallest steps. You now have your to-do list.
- Schedule. Now divide your day into half hour slots and assign a time to each task based on the amount and length of the steps, and stick to your plan.