<p>There are loads of things you've got to take care of during college - classes, sports, cheerleeding, parties etc.What do you do to keep yourself organised all throughout the day, the week and the month? Please share some of your strategies and tips.</p>
<p>I have a planner for my homework assignments and some after school activities, and then I use sticky notes for shopping lists, notepads at my desk for homework I have to do when I have a lot of it, and a calendar of my Alpha Chi activites that we got. It's generally enough for me.</p>
<p>I just put stickies of stuff I have to do on the bar thing on my desk. That way I can feel the satisfaction of ripping those mofos off and throw them away when i do a task!</p>
<p>I have a planner...and use it. Everytime a due date for something or an exam is announced, I write it down. Also write down my "to do" list for the day, if anything special needs to be done. I carry the planner with me pretty much all the time, checking off things as they are done, and consulting it to plan even a week ahead for homework/tests/social stuff.</p>
<p>I also made a block schedule in Excel, with all my classes and regularly scheduled meetings, work, etc. It shows where I have free time in my day. It also serves as a reality check--there are free hours in the day, and you just have to make the most of them and not goof off before you get your work done. I carried the schedule with me the first couple weeks of school, but now I know it by heart.</p>
<p>there is a great book about this topic called "Getting Things Done". It's almost a cult thing for people in science and engineering careers because it's a very structured approach to keeping track of things. In college it would help you span the range of tracking from the do-it-now stuff to the bigger picture items such internships or your major.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done</a></p>
<p>The first step to getting ORGANIZED is spelling "organized"</p>
<p>Organised is the British-English (if that's what the term is) spelling of organized. They often change "z"s to "s"s.</p>
<p>I don't. Its worked for me so far...so whatever.</p>
<p>yea I pretty much just try and remember it all, I don't make lists or do anything like that.</p>
<p>I try to hold on to the class syllabus and just have those for when paper's are due. I don't really need to organize anything else.</p>
<p>It really depends. I look at my syllabuses from time to time to figure out when tests/papers are coming up. This way I know when to study so I can plan other stuff (workouts, appointments, etc) around them. For example, if a week has two tests and the next week marks a two week period of nothing, I'll hold off to make, say, a dentist appointment. (I commute so I can get around pretty well).</p>
<p>I only make to-do lists if I'm working on a project. Like if I'm packing for a trip I'll make a checklist of items. If it's just a normal day and I know I have to read some pages for one class, write a paper for another, and am going to work out I just let those three events flow.</p>
<p>second #10</p>
<p>I have a calendar that I write everything down on. I keep class sylabuses and write down all test and paper due dates as the month starts. I don't write it down as the beginning of the semester because teachers can and will change dates if necessary.</p>
<p>I use my cell phone to alert me of the events I have going on! The busier you are the easier it is to forget stuff that is less important!</p>
<p>I just have no life.</p>