Time Managements Effect on College Students (1)
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Time Managements Effect on College Students
Breon Mason
Grand Canyon University
ENG-106: English Composition II
Dr. Auchter
January 11, 2024
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Time Managements Effect on College Students
In a world full of distractions, the pursuit to success can be challenging if time management is lacking. We are naturally put in positions to make decisions so teaching time management needs to be something that is started early on. As a young adult preparing for the world, most come out of high school and college is the next direction. This path is taken by so many people because of how much it is pushed on them in order to pursue a solid and dependable career. Starting college is the beginning of more freedom for a lot of young adults, so
the timed schedules that parents and teachers once helped with falls on them solely and with that becomes stress. There has been a study showing that students are performing at a decliced rate due to poor time management skills and as a result over fifty percent of students study less (Heimlich, 2014). Following that study, there are certain criterias such as setting goals, sacrifice, and avoiding procrastination that could be a major help in the success of mastering time management.
When starting something new and trying to incorporate it into everyday life, setting goals
to mark the progress could be very resourceful. Taking the time to sit and write out realistic short
and long term goals will be a sure way to decide what day, week, month, and year looks like. Time is important so when setting a goal to maximize it should include things like a sleep schedule. At the beginning of the day the body and mind should be energized and ready to take on whatever the day might present, meaning that setting a goal for the proper amount of sleep is ideal. That initial goal helps prioritize what the rest of the day will look like. Time management and goal setting works well together, starting to achieve some of these goals set out is when a start to establish routine which is a huge part of how to gain full potential of time. It will help
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define other measurable goals to hit, putting the most critical ones at the forefront of the mind. Choosing which task would be most important comes with difficult choices to make.
Prioritizing time management comes with difficult decisions, and with that comes sacrifice. The transition from high school to college comes with a lot more freedom. That means students are in control of things that were monetized before such as hanging out with friends, curfew, and diet. When creating a successful time management schedule, some favorite hobbies fall to the back, bringing things to the front of the thought process like bedtime and wake up alarms, what days are big assignments due, and how much studying is needed. The hardest thing to do is to cut what enjoyment students have out of life in half. If students are allowed to minimize these things there will be an increase in their life performance. Entering the first year of college most students are looking for the overall college experience like going to parties, joining clubs and different organizations, and sports. All those things are not going to be excluded, but with good time management skills will be forced to pick and choose when they happen. Sacrifice will be one of the more challenging things to do so finding a stride early would
be the most efficient way to start. Time management has to become routine, and with that all procrastination must come to an end. Starting college there will be more time to explore the environment, students will be able
to decide the kind of friends they will want to be around and the things to do with them. A big part of procrastination is distractions. They come from all over, watching too much tv, playing video games for an intensive amount of hours, or just simply being lazy. Getting a complex job to start the freshman year is a way to keep the mind focused and naturally start to use a time management system. Having to plan for a job with deadlines, priority projects, and lengths is where a good sense of time management would come from. . (Nigussie, 2019). Learning time
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management through academics is one way to prevent procrastination, and non-academic activity
is also a good way to sharpen a time management plan (Westgate et al., 2017). Finding a formula
that works for a good time management routine is the key to building and mastering time.
Entering college students are given responsibilities before stepping foot on the campus until the very day of graduation, various tasks from registration for courses, the compilation of course form, to submitting papers (Paulus & Aziz, 2023). These tasks are all ways to begin a path down successful time management. College gives students the freedom most high school students have never had before, it is a responsibility to stay on top of when finding what works. Time management is a key ingredient for that success and with goal setting, sacrifice, and avoiding procrastination would be a good chance at the success. References
Heimlich, R. (2014). Today's College Students Less Prepared. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2011/06/01/todays-college-students-less-
prepared/
Nigussie, T. (2019). The Effect of Time Management Practice on the Academic Achievement: A Case of Dire Dawa University, Ethiopia. European Journal of Business and Management. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/234628799.pdf
Owen, J. (2016). Increasing Time Management Skills to Improve Student Athletes GPA. California State University. https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
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Paulus, A. & Aziz, A. (2023). Binge Watching, Compensatory Health Beliefs and Academic Procrastination among University Students. Journal of Behavioral Sciences. http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/doap/PDF-FILES/2_V33-1-2023.pdf
Westgate, E., Wormington, S., Oleson, K., & Lindgren, P. Productive procrastination: academic procrastination style predicts academic and alcohol outcomes. National Library
of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5551689/