Assalamualaikum and halo halo everyone, :3
Hahah, at the point of time drafting this I'm already in the second half of my first sem first year in Aikol (Ahmad Ibrahim Kuliyyah of Laws- IIUM Law Kuliyyah). Thought of writing something new and then realized I haven't wrote anything for the second part that I planned on the sharing of CFS life and tips. So basically I'm just going to share on time and study management in CFS.
OKAY FIRST OF ALL A LITTLE DISCLAIMER: I am not a PERFECT time manager but I hope this can help you out a bit especially if you are a PROCRASTINATOR like me. >_<
Okay honey, of course some of you might already know that class schedules in university/pre-university are not too packed, but behold, lots of us actually failed to take the benefit and actually perform worse in their studies than before..
1)Course Outline
This is a tips I got from a First Class Honour laws graduate, he said that the first thing that you should do when you enter the first class in the semester is to ask the lecturer for the subject's Course Outline. Basically in the Course Outline, the department had made the study plan of topics and time allocation for the lecturers and students to follow so that everyone can be on the same track (well theoretically). So with this C.O., we can plan our schedule to study or read the topic before the lecturer teach us (which is very helpful) ;). Other than that, we can use the topics outline as our guide to make notes and study as some students actually tends to read unnecessary materials which is way beyond the syllabus when they are panicking for their exams. Don't get me wrong, it's not that we can't read more, but focusing on what we actually supposed to know and master is wayyy more important. It can also saves a lottt of time. Trust me. Usually you can also find the list of assignments and their datelines in the C.O. so you can always keep track with the progress of the works.
2)Personal Time Table
Orite, this one.. I know we had learn to do it since forever but still, it is a way to help time management, which I personally experienced the positive impacts from doing it. There are two types of time tables we can make;
a) Written- Paper or Phone Apps
Basically it's not much work with this type of schedule. Just divide the timelines and fill in the blanks. A way to encourage you to follow it is to reward yourself with anything that give you pleasure and happiness like for me I will do some painting, colouring or watching my favourite show online. Make some self punishments whenever schedule is not followed, kinda list down few things like "cut movie time to finish work" "can't touch phone for 1 hour" or anything that you prefer to write and put them in a jar. Whenever you failed to follow the schedule, draw a piece of paper from the jar and do it.
b) Cognitive Schedule
hahah, idk what it is called actually,, what i meant is basically having the schedule in your mind to follow it. Some people, especially guys, they don't like to write it down because they don't want their friends to see it so it won't be make fun of... a male friend told me this.. *facepalm* Even though it is unseen, the significance of still doing it is to have proper plan to follow in making sure your day will not be a disaster and clumsy... at least by having something planned in your head can make your subconscious mind aware and prepare for what's coming ahead that day.
Well either one you prefer, what's important is DISCIPLINE, without discipline all of these would not matter.
Why?
The most important reason would be to allocate time for the studies, group discussions, assignments, society activities and also having funnnn.
So that all the works can be done without having to give the same lame and stupid excuses such as "I don't have ENOUGH time".
I hope all of us can take this step as a consideration to not only help ourselves but also help others who are affected... Honestly not to be bias, I state this because most of my group works, even until now, consist of these kinda selfish people.. Ya Allah, I swear to God I don't know how some of them could even act innocent about it, my goodness...
Based on my experience in CFS and people i know, more male students tend to have bad time management but the female students are not too much different.. and mind you during my first sem degree study now a lot of the boys actually had improve but some of the good nice girls before had started to change into the negative side..
Can't really put my finger on the causes but all I can say is I know that choosing good friends are veerryyy important in our college life, mark that point my friend..
Basically, I don't think it's necessary to write a long one, but I hope this is helpful to some of you.
My uncle once told me not to find my own style and pace of studying, instead of following the over-rajin people who study 24/7 or prints every cases etc., stay up every night.. it is simply because people are just not born the same..
Getting inspirations and guidance are just fine :)
But remember not to feel insecure about your style because you know yourself best,, :)
And your foundation study is just the right time for you to experiment and suit yourself in the new learning environment (and hopefully you don't feel too comfortable with those free-time or gap you have), because if you don't start finding your pace in CFS then you won't survive in AIKOL my dear,, trust me.. :'')
So that is all from me, hopefully this entry can benefit someone out there.
Thank you for reading, have a nice day ahead you amazing people and Happy New Year! :)
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