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This is a humane change from the old days when the papers were due at 12 noon sharp (in profs’ mailboxes, with all papers being sealed in an envelope by someone).</p>
<p>What your schedule shows that’s perhaps easy to overlook by students who are still in high school is that when you get to college, with classes held intermittently during the day, and at different hours on different days, it’s really important nonetheless to regard most daytime hours as “working hours.” If you do that, and are reasonably disciplined about it, then you usually won’t have to stay up til all hours doing “homework.” Instead, much of your reading/research/writing can be done during daylight (often between classes), though of course when there are tests or papers due almost inevitably you’re going to be putting in longer hours. I also found it useful to have a work calendar or daily/weekly planner, so that I pretty much knew what I had to have done (how many pages of reading, etc.) before class and scheduled my worktime accordingly. This was especially useful in my first year, and it built a planning habit that helped in later ones.</p>