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Traveling in Time
The Term or Quarterly Schedule
It’s important to design a long-term study schedule, which should cover
the entire quarter or semester. To set up such a plan, a sample of which
appears on 
this page
, it’s necessary to ascertain all the important dates
on the academic calendar. These include deadlines for papers, scheduled
quizzes, times for major tests and oral presentations.
Many people resist keeping lists or writing down appointments. But
the most successful people, including the most successful students, are
usually ardent list-makers and schedule-keepers. I don’t know of any top
executives who fail to keep some sort of daily schedule diary or “to do”

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list!
Yet many students are just as busy as high-ranking corporate
executives or professional people. In fact, right now may turn out to be
the busiest time of your life, if you’re an active, ambitious student.
Trying to juggle study assignments, tests, term papers 
and
one or more
extracurricular activities 
and
a regular social life can seem overwhelming
—especially to the disorganized. So it’s essential for you to learn the art
of devising and sticking to a written personal schedule.
Some of the most frustrating times of my own life have been the few
times when I’ve failed to record an appointment or a deadline. On those
occasions, I’ve sometimes found to my chagrin that a project I’ve
forgotten about is due, or an important person I had planned to meet has
been left stranded.
It only takes one or two such embarrassments to impress any
conscientious person with the fact that written schedules are absolutely
essential for a successful, well-ordered life. There’s no reason for any
student to forget a term-paper deadline, overlook a homework
assignment or fail to remember to study for a test. It’s just a matter of
learning what the key dates and requirements are and then writing them
down.
In addition to figuring out the big picture for your academic year, it’s
also important to draw up a weekly and daily schedule so that studying,
leisure activities, meals and extracurricular commitments can be
recorded in one place. This way, you will be able to see at a glance
exactly where you have to be and what’s required of you at a given hour
on a given day.