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Expert: College Freshmen Need Time Management Skills
You can't do everything at once. In fact, new research from Stanford University - published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - shows the more people try to multi-task, the less they accomplish.

And who needs time management skills more than today's college freshmen? They've grown up in a connected society and don't remember a world before cell phones. Now many of them are away from home for the first time and don’t have mom or dad telling them to get their homework done.

From the Counseling Center at the University of Illinois, academic skills chairman Susan Herbert says people have to set their priorities and discipline themselves -- and turn off the computer and cell phone: "Give yourself quality time with your task rather than having to be electronically connected at all times."

Herbert says rather than make out a schedule, some find it easier to make a list of important things to do -- then get them done. She says students have a way of over-committing their time by joining clubs or taking part-time jobs; then, they find, they don't have time to study.

(Illinois Radio Network)
08 26 09 by Newsroom
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