Help..... Im falling behind!!!

[spookycharlotte121]

Im in my final year at uni.... a few months back and already Im falling behind. Im just not getting in the working hours I need to to keep on top of the work.

There are so many other destractions. I have decided that housework is going to be restricted to day time.... but there are still the kids and a million other things that take my attention away from work or interupt me when I should be buckilng down on essays.

Please can someone give me some constructive ideas how to not fall behind. Im starting to panic.

All I can suggest is scheduling, and calling in a few favours of babysitting to give you a few straight hours of peace. Maybe a granny or very good freind could take them a whole weekend and let you really get on with things to bring you back up to speed.

I tend to find hundreds of other things to do before I actually knuckle down and do somthing. Its all excuses though, I time waste like no one I know. Kids need attention but the other million things are exactly that distractions. It is difficult in the run up to Christmas but don't say bugger it, keep trying to do what you can.

Perhaps a strict timetable and letting things like housework slack off for a bit until you catch up.

if you have some child free time, could you spend it in the library, its the only way i work without getting distratced. also have got pally with the class swats, so tend to meet them there and their momentum spurs me on.
(i call them the class swats affectionately we are friends outside of uni too!!

Catch up now, rather than brush it under the carpet and hope it will get better on it's own - because it won't.

Set yourself some daily study goals - work out how much time you can spend on studying that day, and stick to it. Set your working times out like a timetable, and stick religiously to that.

Get off MN. Give yourself an hour (or half an hour, or twenty minutes) MNing time a day, and then spend the rest of the time you would have spent here on your uni work. Only have the MNing time if you have achieved your daily study goals.

Ummm trouble is I live in bristol and drive to bridgwater for uni. The others on my course live in taunton so there is quite a large distance between us which makes meeting up difficult.

At the moment Im doing any uni work once the kids are in bed in the evening. Trying to draw a scale drawing is impossible with an 18 month old ds trying to 'help' lol. Im trying to be in bed by midnight too so that gives me 4 hours to get work done.... although I have to have breaks coz I have the most rubbish concentration levels. I have made so many mistakes in work over the past few weeks due to being destracted by the kids.