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2/23/2015 8:39:27 AM
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Tips on Time Management in College
For any and all gamers that are or were in college, how did you get through it all and still manage to game?
As an engineering major, I'm constantly doing homework, calculating results for lab reports, working on group projects, and attempting to remember it all for when exams come around. In order to get all this done I've forced myself to become a weekend gamer, but that time is even further split between friends, family, and my significant other. All of the gaming time I can manage has gone into Destiny, and I've barely kept up one character. I still haven't even touched Dragon Age Inquisition (fingers crossed spring break), I've been falling behind schedule on making my cosplay for the next convention I want to go to, and I really want to get into Elder Scrolls Online when that comes out for consoles.
How in the hell should I decide what to cut out?
TLDR: College eats up week days, friends take up weekends. How can I make time to play more games than just Destiny?
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1 ReplyI agree with Sentient Mind. To-do lists. Chances are, you haven't tried mapping out your full schedule. You'd be surprised where you can find time if you grab a weekly planner and start writing it all down. Shade in your sleep and classes. Shade in your homework, labs, and group work. Fill it in as much as you can. The blank space becomes yours. DONT LEAVE IT BLANK. Fill it in with "Couch potato hero time" or "Go out with ______" so it's all accounted for. Golden rule: You shouldn't hit the end of the day and not know where the day went. It's like finances and a budget, the guy with an extra 1,000 a month in his budget probably doesn't have many thousands of dollars in savings. Chances are, he's bleeding funds and hasn't pin pointed it. Use this same principle for time management. It only has to be scrutinized over one good time. The rest is just tweaking it. Depending on how you like to work, you could either pull work to the front of the week to get it out of the weekends entirely (and work your butt off Mon-Fri); or spread the work thin and allow for some down time everyday (it's a much smoother ride, but you never really get a full break). Prioritize those things you want to do in your spare time. Be ready to accept that you just might not fit it all in. Front load all of the most important stuff so you always feel accomplished. Good luck man.
