To Party Or Not To Party?
...There he is, sitting at his desk working on an assignment due the next morning, when he gets a phone call; "Dude, there's a party over at John's house. You up for it?" It's only 9:00 pm; there should be plenty of time to finish once he gets back. After all, how late can it possibly last? So you go, have some drinks and have a great time with your friends. Before you know it, you look down at your watch and discover it's four in the morning! You rush back to your room to finish your paper only to fall asleep on your keyboard before you've even started. Time has slipped away because you didn't know how to manage your time, how to balance your play time with your work time.
Don't feel bad, most students don't understand the concept of time management. This is especially a problem for first-year students fresh out of high school. They are finally away from home, out from under their parents' control, and free to do whatever they please. The attendance office isn't calling home whenever they miss a class so it's not such a big deal. All that matters is the end result; your GPA. Many college students deal with their new found liberation in different ways. Some take this freedom in stride and prove that they are up to the challenge, while many others prove they are not mature enough for life without mom and dad's structure. Nearly a third of college freshman will drop-out of school after their first year (Smith). What is the culprit for this, you may ask? One of the biggest problems for college freshmen is a lack of time management skills; in other words, they do not know how to divide a limited amount of time between a huge amount of tasks.
Just one cause of this problem is the lack of effective transitioning between high school and college. High school teachers may say that they are preparing their students for college; however, they only touch...
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