Planning is an important part of anything that you intend to do in life. No matter it is some event or assignment at college or something in professional life, you need to plan things beforehand to anticipate risks and probable incidents that may occur as a result. If this anticipation is done, you can eliminate a number of problems that may have otherwise emerged. Similarly, planning is important if you wish to spend free of stress time at college.
Although students tend to follow one plan for a long time, some need to prepare a new plan for each week due to variations in workload. This might be the case especially for freelancers but every student will have a different workload each week from college. I often had to ask my colleagues to write my assignment for me if I did not plan my week. Following are some tips on how to best plan your next week:
- List all the tasks: A student’s life at college is usually a combination of three things: friends, academics and job. Consider each one individually and list the relevant tasks you know are to be done in the coming week. These may include a freelancing project to be submitted, deadlines for assignments, quiz dates and a friend’s birthday surprise. At this point, the order of tasks does not matter so just focus on adding all the tasks you need to do in the coming week.
- Set priority for each one: One task will always be more important and crucial than the other one. Carefully assess each task and decide which one is the most important, listing them in the order of priority. Make sure you complete the most important ones first for example studying for a quiz that is to be held earlier than submission deadline of an assignment.
- Plan something for unforeseen incidents: Sudden plans, urgent assignment and freelancing projects are very common. Even when I used to plan my weeks at college, such urgent tasks often required me to ask someone to write my assignment for me because everything was equally important to do. So plan strategies like talking to individuals and firms to help in such cases in order to accommodate the unforeseen events in your plan.
- Keep checking the plan frequently: There might be a lot of tasks on your plan for some particular week and you might forget one very important one. In order to eliminate this problem, keep checking the plan after every task you complete so you know what needs to be done next. Missing a task can be very costly in some cases which you, as a student, would want to ignore.
- Time management should be kept in mind: Listing the tasks and prioritizing each one may be very easy but do you have sufficient time to complete all of them? You might not have enough time to complete all the tasks so a plan might help you know which task can be ‘outsourced’ and which ones are important to be done by yourself.
So prepare these strategies in order to have weeks free of stress at college no matter how tough your routine is. A plan with strict implementation is always useful for college students.
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