5A Are Your Academic Methods Working for You?

         These first four weeks have been a drastic change from my life at high school, and I had a find a way to adapt to the college life fast to not risk getting behind and failing. So far I am proud of the work that I have done, and it has shown in my classes by only getting one “B+” and the rest “A’s” but I know that I can do more. Being a college student is definitely harder than it was at high school, but I found that if you budget your time wisely, the work becomes more manageable and doesn’t seem to consume you. So far in these first four weeks I have not had any failures, and I am happy about that, but I have had some close calls. For instance in my Recreation and Leisure class I had to have an assignment posted on Blackboard at 6PM and I remembered I had to do it at 4:30, and luckily I got it done and posted in time.

            After having that experience, I know I don’t want to feel that stress again, and after reading through some of the articles there was one that really stood out to be and I think could actually help bring success to my academic life. The article described the “autopilot schedule” what this basically means is that you set aside a specific time and place for you to work on an assignment, and if you don’t do it in that time then you lose the opportunity to get it done. This method is a good idea for academic success because it target one of the major issues that college students face, procrastination, and if you beat procrastination then you can become more successful in your classes.

            For the rest of the semester I plan on still trying to get good grades, but instead on just focusing on the grade itself, I will give more attention to why it is I got the grade I got, and how I can improve and work on fixing the methods of studying that I have that aren’t seeming to be beneficial to my work and intern myself.