Use a Planner

• By putting everything you have to do, places you have to be, etc. in a planner you only have to look in ONE place to find out what you need to do.
• To make the planner more effective make different types of entries differentiable in a single glance
  • i.e. Put a box next to TO DO items so you can check them when you are done. (including a due date next to them is useful too)

“A place for everything, and everything in its place”

• While cliche this saying is still true. By assigning a place for things and keeping them there you save time in remembering and searching for where things are. Also notice that this quote says nothing about things having to be neat and tidy
• Some ideas to do this are…
  • Give each class it’s own notebook/notbook section, folder/binder section, etc.
  • Put all textbooks in the same place

1337 5P33K is a tip of the week series written by people who were once in your shoes. Feel free to post a comment and if you have a question email Brandi Adams at bkadams@cs.umd.edu and she and I will do our best to find the answer.