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Isolate your time wasters and set up a plan to cut them down. You cannot be an evening person if your classes begin in the morning. Change your sleeping pattern. Learn to eat a little faster but chew well still. Be aware of your tight schedule when in the bathroom or dressing up. If it is the traffic, find out what hour of the day is the leanest or least busy. Being there early does not always solve the problem, because “early” is the time that everybody waits for a ride and traffic is worst. Calculate the time to commute to school give at least half an hour’s allowance.

If you have many house chores, there are many ways of reducing or hastening them. Or you can ask help from siblings, learn faster ways of completing the chores or adjusting the time when the younger siblings you take care of are asleep. Speed reading is something you cna surely learn. Ask the help of your English department head. And you can schedule your study when your friends are studying too or are at home. Otherwise, explain your objective to them and suggest that you all study at the same time in your respective homes and have fun another time.

Besides teachers, the school management and staff, try to know and make friends with the school’s rank and file employees and casuals. The gate keeper, janitors, security guards, canteen waiters and waitresses, church servers, gardeners, drivers, mechanics, office assistants,laborers,laundrywomen and even the vendors are daily personalities to meet and befriend.

They can give valueable suggestions as to whom to appraoch concerning your term oaoer or report, for example, by directing you to the approriate teacher, dean or staff. They are in the know, They also spice up your otherwise tedious schoolwork.

In the kitchen, friendship with  the waitresses can win you faster services, bonuses or discounts. The gatekeeper may  help you with your things on stormy days or watch for your visitors. And even regular pleasantries with the gardener start your day bright and make you feel good at having lighted up his face.