Time Management
- Managing Time Effectively
Managing your time effectively is one key to academic success. University courses require hard work, and you will need to strike a balance between the demands of your course work and all of the competing demands in your life—extracurricular activities, social activities, volunteer work, employment, family obligations, and sufficient exercise and sleep to remain healthy, to name a few—that may diminish the time you will have available to succeed academically.
One useful index to help estimate the time your course work will require is the Ohio State faculty rule that establishes, approximately, the time a student should be required to spend to earn one credit hour: two hours per week outside of class and one hour in class to earn a grade of “C.” A five-hour class, therefore, should require fifteen hours per week to earn a grade of “C,” and a fifteen-hour schedule will require a commitment of about 45 hours per week. Students who expect to earn higher grades will often need to invest significantly more time in their course work.
To help you track the demands of your courses—due dates for assignments, examinations, and papers—along with the various other activities that will take you away from your school work, we strongly recommend that you keep a calendar or planner. Careful planning will help you to use your time more effectively and to see in advance, when you can plan for them, the more stressful weeks in your schedule. On the quarterly calendars that follow, we have provided important dates for you to remember including the university’s deadlines for dropping courses, should the demands of your first quarter prove more than you can manage.
A calendar alone will not, of course, resolve all challenges, and should time and the pace of an academic quarter seem to be getting out of hand, you should remember the various university services, including academic advising, available to help you make a wise choice about what to do next.
If you find you are having trouble managing your time effectively, the following web site on time management might be a useful tool to help you get started: www.studygs.net/timman.htm
- Autumn Quarter 2009
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Week 1
21 Sept.
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23 Sept.
Classes Begin!
Last day to pay w/o penalty.24
Late Payment/ registration $10025 Sept.
Last day to add w/o instructor’s permission. Last Day 100% refund.Week 2
28 Sept.
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1 October
2 Oct.
Last day to add w/o dept. chair permission. Last Day 80% refund.Week 3
5 Oct.
Late Payment $300
Late Registration $5006
7 Oct.
15th Day
Last day to enroll in/decline student health insurance.8
9 Oct. 3rd Friday
Last day to add w/o petition. Last day to drop or withdraw w/o “W” on record. Last day to register for Audit, Pass/Non-Pass. Last Day 70% refund.Week 4
12 Oct.
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Last day 60% refund.Week 5
19 Oct.
Priority Windows open.20
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Last day 50% refund. No refunds after this date.Week 6
26 Oct.
Rank 4 Windows open.27
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Week 7
2 November
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Rank 3 Windows open.4
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6 Nov. 7th Friday
Last day to drop a class w/o petition.Week 8
9 Nov.
Rank 2 Windows open.10
11
Veterans’ Day Observed
Campus Closed!12
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Week 9
16 Nov.
Rank 1 Windows open.17
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Week 10
23 Nov.
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26 Nov.
Thanksgiving Day Campus Closed!27 Nov.
Columbus Day Observed
Campus Closed!Week 11
30 Nov.
1 December
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4 Dec.
Last day of regularly scheduled classes.Week 12
7 Dec.
Final Exams8
Final Exams9
Final Exams10
Final Exams11
Commencement: Sunday December, 13th 2009
