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Better Time Management
For many students, college is the first time they will have the flexibility and independence to set their own schedules. Developing solid time management skills is vital as a first term Business student. Doing so contributes to your academic success, allows you take advantage of more learning opportunities, lowers your stress, and helps you focus. Read on for tips on better time management.
WATCH: How to Manage Your Time Better
Tips For New College Students** 
  • Build resilience (keep on keeping on)
  • Use your resources
  • Keep a regular schedule
  • Become self-aware
  • Update your daily journal
  • Seek constant feedback
  • Mistakes are our friends
Planning = Freedom*
To have a schedule and a plan can make you feel not only calmer and happier, but also more peaceful and in control. Planning can increase "our freedom in specific ways," something which becomes clear as we remember the following ideas:

  • You set the plan
  • You can change the plan
  • You choose how to achieve the plan
  • Planning makes reaching our goals more likely
  • Planning frees you from constant decisions
  • With a plan, you are free to handle unexpected change
Want More Ways to Improve Your Time Management Skills?
Workshop
Wednesday, September 19th
4:00pm, Rowe 217
Come to  Open Advising Hours to discuss time management with your Peer Advisor
Please note: Videos in "Success in 30 Minute" campaigns are not produced by the UConn School of Business Office of Undergraduate Advising. They are merely included as resources to help students.
*Ellis, D. (1998).  Becoming a master student : Tools, techniques, hints, ideas, illustrations, examples, methods, procedures, processes, skills, resources, and suggestions for success  (Updated 8th ed.].. ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
**Rosenberg, Ross A. "Time Management Tips for New College Students."  Huffington Post , 7 Dec. 2017,
www.huffingtonpost.com/ross-a-rosenberg/time-management-tips-for-_b_12435970.html.
Accessed 2 Aug. 2018.