It’s an extremely tough task for a student to balance academic activities with extracurricular, and at the same time to also ensure a healthy eating and sleeping routine. More often than not students have to sacrifice their sleep or meals or both in order to meet with success in their academics. What I would like universities to emphasize on by including it in their curriculum is ways in which students can strike the right balance between academics and their life outside the classroom.
It’s an extremely steep ask to expect students who have just graduated from high school to manage their time well. Universities often like to address this issue by referring to it as a gradual learning process. The problem with doing this is that by the time a student actually learns to prioritize and balance his/her time a grave to big has already been dug.
The crucial phase for an undergraduate is at the very beginning of his/her college degree i.e. freshman year. At this time students are fresh from high school and are used to having most things spoon fed to them. So the fact that students have to do a lot of things on their own for the first time is quite a challenge in itself, and to further expect them to cope with the work pressure from class is far from just.
Not surprisingly those students that are not able to manage time impeccably fall into a ditch. University administrators need to realize that even the brightest of students fail to balance their activities, so it should be the responsibility of the university to instill these skills in students.
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