Are you jumping with excitement for your first semester of college? Or maybe you’re nervous? Probably both?
Either way, it’s going to be a fantastic new journey. Along with the new independence, college is also going to offer you a more flexible schedule than you might be used to.

Here’s how I recommended scheduling all of your free time, as it could be more dangerous than you think.

What experiences do you have with coming up with creative solutions for scheduling your free time? I’d love to hear yours.

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The semester is just beginning, and I can see the hope in my clients’ eyes that this will be the semester they will finally reach their academic goals, whether it’s getting all their homework done and in on time, or raise their grades. And I want to tell you all about a particular client, who is a 17-year-old young lady, and I worked with her a couple of years. It became obvious back then that she wasn’t going to cut it in high school, and that she didn’t want to cut it in high school. She was sick of teachers telling her what to do, she was sick of the kinds of classmates she had, and she just needed to move on from high school. So I worked with her and her family to get her setup to be a high school student in community college. And she’s been there for over 3 semesters now and she’s got enough credits to move on to college. And the reason she wanted to work with me again, was that she’d noticed her habits had been great for the first two semesters; however, in the last one, she’s noticed that her habits haven’t been quite as good and so she wants help setting up a schedule and help with accountability for sticking to it.

So we came up a schedule, see 2:20 in the video. First off, we color coded it so that it would be easy to recognize the different aspects and keep track of items as the semester went on. Purple is her classes, orange is her study time, and green is when and where she’s going to eat as she’s been having issues eating properly. She has Bio and Calc on Monday and Wednesday, Stats and English on Tuesday and Thursday, and Friday is her big bio and calc day. And since she knows that Calc is going to be particularly challenging so we built in some time at the math lab every Monday and Wednesday. In the time slots for studying, which includes about 5 hours on Friday, 2 hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 1 hour at home every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. We also planned out when I’d be checking in with her throughout the week.

And I think that this is a great idea to schedule out your weeks with your classes, your studying, your homework time, your eating, etc in the beginning of the semester. Then it’s all a matter of making sure you stick to it and creating accountability. And if you’d like some tips and tricks for accountability and time management click here.