Time Management

Time management is one of the inevitable factors in life. Be it professional, family or a student life, it is very important. It is essential that the students have to apply dynamic time management to get best out of their studies. Usually, after joining the college, the student’s focus changes from time to time during the semester, based on the extracurricular activities, co-curricular activities, examinations, home assignments, and lab assignments, etc.  Especially in a credit based system, the focus changes according to one’s performance in the test and lab evaluation that happens as part of the continuous evaluation. I have seen students feeling depressed when the results for the periodical exams are published. Sometimes students become angry with the teacher for not getting the expected marks. The observation is that even an average student joins an engineering college assuming that he can enjoy the college life and this attitude in the first year itself brings disaster by scoring lesser marks in the subjects.  Along with that the new environment, new people, friends, etc make the situations worse to take the studies lightly. It is very much necessary for a student to have a flexible mind and attitude to adjust with the situations so that during the first year itself.  For a real aspirant, priority should be given to studies only and all the other activities shall be secondary. Why I mentioned "real" aspirant is that there are only a few ones who aspire to become an engineer in life to contribute something valuable to the society. Now-a-days, the number of seats for the engineering programmes in India is much more than that of the students who write the qualifying examination. Home Assignments, tutorials etc. should be seriously taken as aids for learning.  This helps to reduce the time taken to learn the topics later outside the class.  This may not be possible for all the students. In that case, better to invest more time for studies than the other activities. For that, one has to assess oneself and set the goal in the beginning itself.  Precisely, this depends on the interest and passion, nothing else. Co-curricular activities help to a greater extent if they are taken as opportunities to apply the technology and concepts learned in the class. Try to do the practical based on the theory so that the concepts learned in the theory classes become concrete in the mind.  In case if there is any failure in the subjects, it should be given priority, by allocating a certain amount of time each week so that finally during the examination it is easy to consolidate and write the examination.  As our ancestors say, it is not wise to keep everything at the end. Priority should be given to those subjects you find difficult to understand.  There are lots of resources available in the internet to learn all the subjects in this universe.  Make use of it.

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