Dear Reader,
Why is effectively managing your time important as a community college student? Because your ability to stay in school until you graduate significantly depends on it.
Our dreams and goals may take us years to achieve, but we work towards them through our daily actions. What focused, consistent actions are you willing to take to achieve your dreams and goals?
For me, managing my time effectively while a student at community college meant focusing on my top three priorities: family, school, and work. My life revolved around those priorities throughout my time at community college.
Looking back, I see three qualities I had to strengthen in order to manage my time: I had to become more self-disciplined, more focused, and more organized.
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Coming into community college, I already had many years of experience managing my family and work. But since college was a completely new experience for me, I didn't know what adding higher education into my schedule would mean to my day-to-day life. So I had to learn how to better manage my time and to adjust as I went, becoming increasingly self-disciplined, focused, and organized, which in turn helped me manage my personal life, education, and work simultaneously.
To support you in staying on track with your learning, in this article, I discuss how to effectively manage your time as a community college student through becoming self-disciplined, focused, and organized.
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Do you want to know more about how I went from a high-school dropout to a master’s degree? Grab a copy of my memoir, Destined: A Story of Resilience and Beating the Odds, set for release in February 2025. I would appreciate your review of it when it appears on Amazon!
Thank you for reading. Wishing you all the best.
Keep going!
Aminata Sy
Author of Destined: A Story of Resilience and Beating the Odds
