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How I manage my time as a student — Balancing studying, writing, and health

My top 9 time management tips that you can apply too

Ananya
6 min readAug 13, 2023

As a student, navigating:-

  • Academics
  • Extracurriculars
  • Writing
  • A healthy lifestyle

…and other crucial things is not easy.

At all.

Balancing the demands of rigorous coursework, learning to code, my love for writing, and taking care of my health (physically and mentally).

Nobody taught me how to manage my time at school. Students are usually expected to learn this (very important) skill independently, by experimenting and playing with techniques to find the perfect system for themselves.

I haven’t completely reached the goal of building and maintaining this system, but I’m trying my best.

So, in this guide, I’m going to share some of my favourite and most useful principles and techniques that help me stay on track (and can hopefully help you too) and manage time most of the time.

Task > Time

Time is inflexible.

If you plan around the hours of your day, it’s easy to fall back. And, once you do, it’s difficult to get back on track again.

Task decides time, time doesn’t decide the task.

It’s better to assign X amount of time to each task depending on you. You also decide the when. As long as you get the task done within your deadline, it doesn’t matter when you got it done.

Leave room for compromise

You’re human.

There’s NO WAY you can follow your schedule perfectly, so it’s important to leave room to catch up and not beat yourself about it.

Don’t aim for perfectionism.

You need to experiment with the amount of time each important task takes in different areas of your life, so that you’ll know how much time each task is gonna take.

So, when you are experimenting, don’t forget to leave room and expect tasks to last longer.

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Ananya
Ananya

Written by Ananya

A student writing about productivity and self improvement!

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