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Making a due-date sheet

As soon as you get all of your syllabi for all your courses, pick a pen colour for each course. Then, pick a highlighter colour - I like to use yellow for REALLY IMPORTANT assignment due dates and hot pink for final exams.

Print off a mini monthly calendar, preferably where your entire semester can fit on one double-sided page, and fill in every assignment // exam // due date in their respective pen colours. Then, highlight (or circle in highlight) the really important due dates and exam dates. 

Keep this piece of paper in your agenda, so you ALWAYS know how much time you have between each important date and when your important due dates are. You’d be surprised at how effective it is in calming you down (when you’re panicking about the dates) and in motivating you (because you know exactly how much time you have to prepare for each due date). 

Leave a comment if you want to see an example! 

Before you organize, ask yourself the following questions:

1) When is your best/most productive time of the day?

2) When does your energy peak?

3) When does your energy decline?

4) What type of tasks/people give you energy or take your energy away?

As much as you want to be that start-studying-by-6AM kind of person, if your energy levels don’t peak until 10PM, save the more heavy-concentration tasks for that time.