A big stressor for me in school is time management. I have always been bad at managing time. I have tried plenty of things to better my skills such as setting goals or carrying around a daily planner, but nothing seems to work. Granted I get everything done when it is supposed to be I often still cram stuff together. It is unhealthy and mentally exhausting. I am slowly improving my time management, and although it is little at a time I am already noticing a difference in my mental health. The first couple of weeks in school were going great, I was staying on top of my work, and I felt like I was managing my time. All my classes but one were in person and I was intimidated by the one online class. I didn’t believe I could succeed in an online course.
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Personally, online classes were not an option for me. I wanted nothing to do with online classes, so my advisor made sure my classes were all in person. A week or two before the semester started, I got an email that the class was being moved to an online course. I pondered on the news for a couple of days going back and forth with myself debating on dropping the class or sticking it out. I decided to stick it out and hoped for the best. The most intimidating thing about the class being online was that it was accelerated. I continued to keep up with the work from all my classes for the next couple of weeks. Until the online course workload started to get overwhelming and I decided to push other class work off for the online course. I would get irritated and emotional because it was taking me so long to understand what was being taught, and there were multiple things due in a day EVERYDAY! Most days I wouldn’t finish right until the last minute. I would go to bed without doing work for any other class. It caught up to me and I had to stay up all night a few nights in a row to catch up on the work I pushed off. I realized how bad my mental health gets when I don’t make enough time to do work for each class. My online course is finished now, and I am trying new techniques to help me manage my time better to take the stress and the mental load down a few notches.