Time management

Subin Lee

Time management is one of the hardest skills to master when being a student. College is one of the hardest times to develop good time management skills. Time managing itself is a very difficult task, yet having more disturbances around makes it more difficult. One of the major problems that should be considered when talking about time management is procrastination. Procrastination is a huge temptation that heavily draws many college students to wait until the last minute.

There are so many other things in college that students can do other than their homework and studying. The library is a perfect example. Though students do study in the library, for some students, the library is more like a meeting place. Since it is a popular place to go, some students actually just go to the library to hang out. This becomes a major disturbance for students who actually come to study, because sooner or later, the students will be tempted to stop working and hang out with their friends. A popular scenario is: a student goes to the library to study, one of his friends finds him and starts talking, a few more friends crowd in, someone becomes hungry, and they eventually all go out to eat or order food, leading the studying student to spend the whole night studying or not study at all.

It is not that hanging out with friends is a negative thing, but the fact that maintaining decent time management when there are so many other temptations in college that students can be lured into should be considered. Time management is an important skill for students to master in order to succeed. Few students actually might bring out great performance when procrastinating; however, this is not the case for most students. Doing things before hand, step by step, and proofreading usually turns out to have better quality.