Managing Time
Introduction
Time is a crucial aspect in our lives. Generally, time helps us organize our activities and lives. This article mainly focuses on how the students manage their time during their time in campus and ways in which students can improve their time management skills. Some of the time wasting activities in campus includes;
Working out
Working out mainly focuses on training programs. In this case, working out cannot really be considered as a time wasting activity but it helps the students stay fit. The amount of time the students are involved in the training programs during their time in campus can sometimes be time wasting given the fact that they must be involved in learning activities during their time in school.
Watching television
Watching television can turn out to be an addictive activity. Students watch television to pass out time but in the process, they waste a lot of time doing the activity.
Surfing the Internet
The bad thing about surfing the internet is that, the activity can be addictive. Continuous internet surfing of the internet can derail the progress of the student hence become a time wasting activity. Surfing the internet entails, goggling different sites, social networking and chatting.
Hanging out with friends
Hanging out with friends around campus can be an absolutely amusing and fun activity. Hanging out with friends will mean that the students will be involved in various activities to pass time. Some of the activities are time wasting. Some of the activities include debating on silly topics, lengthy discussions on life issues, and work or school related issues. Some of these activities if not well managed can be time wasting.
Face booking/My Spacing
Face booking or My Space can often lead to procrastination among the campus students. This activity can be distracting for the students especially with the continuous face book update or checking personal profiles. The continuous news feeds on the social site can prove to be a time wasting activity. Whether the updates involves you or not, a student would still feel have the urge to look at the site. Alternatively, My space is also a time waster social entertainment destination. This site being an emailing, forum and a video social site, heavily affects the amount of time a student spends on it. Video calls can be a long affair with both students catching up hence wasting a lot of time.
My ability to manage time in campus this semester was due to proper planning of my activities. As the campus reopened, I planned all the learning and non-learning activities that I will be involved during the semester. I created the time management goals and I tried to find out where I used to waste time before. I successfully managed to save a lot of time during the whole semester hence my grades improved. Despite my ability to manage time well, I was surprised by the little activities that still derailed me throughout the semester. Activities such as Video games and social networking heavily derailed my time management skills.
I plan to take various time management skills in order to ensure that I improve my time management skills during my time in campus. I plan to create time management goals and plan my activities well. I will do this by creating a timetable, which will give me the right direction while performing my activities. To other students, I will recommend then to plan their time management skills before starting the semester. During the holidays, I will advise them to come up with time management goals and re-check some of the activities, which derail them.
Conclusion
Managing the time well by the students will be key to the student’s success during their campus life. Time wasting can result to failure in any activity the students are involved in both during their campus life and during the outside world.
