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University life: You can't do it all, no matter how good your time management skills are

The truth is that it's impossible to do everything, even if you're really, really organised - something's got to give

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University life: You can't do it all, no matter how good your time management skills are
Wong Tsui-kai

Unless you're one of these eight-year-old geniuses, you're no longer a child when you start university. And lots of people will want to remind you: it’s not uncommon to hear things like, ‘You’re an adult now. You need to be disciplined, independent and learn time management.” 

People talk about time management - and how going to university is great training for it - and how it makes you a better person. Like being able to juggle studying, classes, homework, a job and maybe some socialising and relaxing every now and then is a necessary virtue of life.

What people don't talk about is how you'll need more than 24 hours in a day; either that or to skip sleep, which, to be fair, plenty of students do. 

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