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What are the best and most effective methods to stay on top of assignments and studies in college without experiencing a vast amount of stress and to avoid detrimental obstacles ?

Interested in Computer Engineering and a minor in Spanish Language and Literature

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Birajan’s Answer

Below are some tips you might find helpful:
Being consistent
Making incremental progress every single day
Prioritize what is most important. Complete the most pressing course work first.
Seek guidance and councel from mentors.
Don't wait until the last moment to submit assignment.
Once an assignment is provided, work towards it incrementally keeping completion on mind.
Attempting to complete the entire assignment at one go, with very little time left can make you feel overwhelmend and add unneeded stress.

I wish you the best for your college journey!
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Dima’s Answer

Looking back at my college years, the most valuable lesson I picked up wasn’t just how to study — it was how to manage myself. Keeping up with assignments without feeling overwhelmed really comes down to structure, discipline, and realistic planning rather than just grinding harder.

What helped me the most was treating college like a full-time job. I set consistent “work hours” each day — usually from nine to five — and dedicated that time to lectures, labs, readings, or assignments. Even on days without classes, I’d still use those hours to catch up or review material. That routine kept me from falling behind and spared me from those stressful all-nighters.

I also made it a habit to break down big tasks. Large projects or long papers can feel impossible at first, but once you divide them into smaller pieces — research, outlining, drafting, editing — the workload becomes much easier to handle. It’s a lot like software development: you don’t build an entire system in one go; you tackle it step by step.
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Zhidong’s Answer

The stress came from unkown. If you are not certain about something, you will definitely have stress. The best way to deal with it is to be more aware of the situation and consequences that you could possibly have.
In this case, the schedule matters. You may need to plan your life in college down to a daily or hourly schedule, knowing which day and hour will be for what, and what outcome you are expecting from this hour, and stick to this plan/schedule, could help to reduce the stress you are having.

For example, you have 2 courses today taking half day away, and you plan to spend 2 hours on some assignment. Then focus on the 2 hours and try to complete that. You know you will get something after this 2 hours, and once you get it, you would have a feeling of achievement as a prize for yourself. That would encourage you to stick to the plan, a positive loop is built.

Otherwise, if you always cannot feel that feeling of achievement, that would be a frastration and become a negative loop in your daily life. Always build a positive loop, it makes you confident and know yourself better. As long as you know yourself, and what you can and what you cannot, there would not be that much stress.
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Sandeep’s Answer

Hi TeCoreya,

Thanks for your wonderful question. Its been a while since I completed my masters degree and so checked with my son who just finished his university this month. So the recommendations are coming from someone of your generation and who has been thru this recently:
1. Be aware of the subjects/units you have signed up for, your understanding of these and the efforts tentatively these will take.
2. College is about "education", also about networking, bonding with friends and exploring / spending time on your extra curricular activities. It should not be all "studies" and no "fun" or "all fun" with little or no "studies". A balance is always important.
3. Being organized, discipline is one of the most important aspect. You need to know what assignments you have, how much time will it take for your lectures, clarification and preparation for the assignment. A mobile app like "Notion" helps to keep track of your assignments, your tasks at hand and timelines.

Wish you the best in this important phase of your life and wish you the best.

Regards,

Sandeep

Sandeep recommends the following next steps:

Another option is to leverage the use of AI in helping you study and save you time on tasks. My son had a unit where he had 4-5 hours of lectures while he was overloading (5 units). He used to pass his lecture slides to a tool called Notebook LLM by Google, and then he was able to generate notes for it that helped him with his assignments.
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