Time Management

Good day people. Have you been? I hope all is well. As you most probably know, this is the last week of lectures. To students and their lecturers, this is peak of the lectures and every one looks forward to the Harmattan Semester Examinations. Now, in reality, this is the time when most students waste their time. They look at their various time-tables and have the illusion that there’s a lot of time to read and study where there isn’t. And of course, there’s the World Cup going on in South Africa as you read and the boys and a few girls are glued to their television screens to get the live action.

            However, they say,” All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. I totally agree. The fact that I’m to take a degree doesn’t mean for me to have a dull brain in the process. So, we‘re going to discuss a topic that has been mentioned times without number.

           

            Time Management. What is time management? Time Management is a strategy used by individuals to help plan, organise, control and motivate themselves by scheduling things they have to do with time frames e.g lecture timetable. ‘Aye opo” has become a normal slang on this campus used by students to tell their buddies that there’s not enough time. In reality, there is no time and there is also a lot of time. It depends on how you use your time. As everyone knows that there’s 24 hours in a day and every student need an approximate of 6 hours of sleep. What of the remaining 18 hours of the day. Obafemi Awolowo University has scheduled lecture times to be between 7am to 7pm. That takes 12 hours. What of the the other 6 hour? Some use there 6 hours in Mozambique and Fajuyi Halls of residence while others use their’s in the Library and others in their various department trying to get some things in their heads. Examination  even, are always within this time frame. So every student should be able to have his/her own “time-table”.

            Another trend that has been noticed on this campus is that during examination, students tend to get ‘broke’. This is another area where a student needs strategies of money management. As we know, money is a resource that is scarce and it must be used effectively and efficiently or could lead to wastefulness. A resourceful person however uses his resource(s) to nullify day to day challenge(s). It is advisable to spend money wisely as to  how the examination is concerned.

            More so, a  lot of students also have problems with feeding. Most students eat adequate but not balanced meals which lead to deficiency symptoms on the long run. Some believe in the 1-0-1 feeding, others 0-1-1 and yet others, 0-1-0 (How pathetic). The brain alone uses 120 grams of glucose per day how much more the rest of the body. Most people don‘t know that vitamins(especially vitamin B complex) plays an important role in energy generation. If the body has 120 grams of glucose with no B vitamin to metabolise it, it is as good as not eating at all. The sources of Vitamin B are foods, based in  high protein content such as milk, cheese, fish, meat, pork and green vegetables etc. A balanced meal should provide the food nutrients in the right proportion. The food nutrients include protein, carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals, fat and oil(lipids) and of course water. Fibres, too are important part of the diet because of their usefulness in colon cancer prevention  among others, they are also a part of carbohydrates. Well, we’ll have more to talk about that next week.

            So, I hope with all of these, we all will be healthy, wealthy and wise during this examination period. Till then ,thank you.