Even though I'm only a freshmen in college, I have experienced a lot at Hampton University during my fall and spring semester. Currently I am maintaining a 3.5 GPA and I am on the Deans list. Of course it's not easy but it's something that needs to be done. If you are in school for the right reasons, keeping up with your grades shouldn't be difficult. Maintaining my grades took a lot of discipline, time management and organization.
The ways I disciplined myself was by studying during those nights I wanted to go to the party with my friends. There were times I had to put my phone down because I was what my friends called me, a "twitter fiend." I use to be that girl always on twitter every minute of the day, just because, (I had no life pretty much LOL). I spent hours in the library staying focused on my assignments for all of my classes until they were completed. When I finally made up in my mind that I wanted to better my GPA, I had to straighten my priorities and plan out a strategy that best worked for me. That strategy was simply to complete my assignments before I indulged in what I wanted to do. Now my needs come first. A real woman handle her business first and then go play.
In my opinion, time management is the main key to success. If you can not control when and when not you will do something, how would you expect to get the results you want. This applys to anything in life. I had to get in the routine of doing things at a certain time. As soon as I got an assignment I would do it. I try not to wait until the day before or day of to finish my school work. I even had to take time out of my day to visit my professors and academic councilor during their office hours so that way they could get to know me a little better and to just set myself apart from my other classmates.
When it comes to keeping up with my life and anything I want to accomplish, I will always need a daily planner. Daily planners, journals, my reminders & notes on my phone and a calendar are great essentials to staying organized. In college your life can get scrambled if you don't have anything to help you rember important events and when your assignments are due. One thing to help get your life organized is by making a color coordinated schedule. This may help especially for the visual learners like myself. You write down on a piece of paper what it is your going to do in time order. Then highlight each thing in a different color highlighter (or just write down everything in a different color gel pen). The colors help you remember what classes and or certain things you have to do on a particular day (it helps me). Staying on top of your college life can be fun and enjoyable when you discipline yourself, manage your time and organize everything that's going on. And soon your college experience will be even better than before!!
