Time Management

No matter how you slice it, there are only 24 hours in a day. To be successful at university, students need to learn

good time-management skills. The first skill is not taking on more than you can handle. If you are a working part

time, have a family and are involved in a community organisation, then taking a full course-load at university will be

too much. Another time management skill is reasonably estimating the time required to perform each of the tasks at

hand. For example, deeply reading a chapter from a course text cannot be completed in between television

programmes. Finally, actually doing what needs to be done seems obvious, but is a very difficult skill. You may find

that cleaning out your wardrobe becomes vital when you are avoiding study. Procrastination is a time manager's

enemy. By learning time management skills your university study will be successful and most importantly enjoyable.