Design Project

Step 1: DEFINE The Problem.

College is an incredible stressful time for many, as we have to struggle through a large list of challenges throughout the course of a semester, a year, and a college career. Some things that the college kids of today are struggling with are:

• Time management (balancing social life, sleep, and school)

• Keeping track of assignment deadlines

• Effective studying

• Organizing notes

• Finding reliable resources for research/assignments

• Overwhelming work loads

• Procrastination / writer's block

• Burnout

• Public Speaking

Step 2: COLLECT Information.

Step 3: BRAINSTORM & ANALYZE Ideas.

From my experiences as a college student, as well as the results from my undergraduate survey, I've decided that the academic problem I feel is the most pressing to address is time management and tracking assignment deadlines.  Survey data shows that the three largest academic issues faced by my small sample of undergraduate students are "Time Management," "Assignment Deadlines," and "Overwhelming Workloads." From this data, as well as the testimonials provided by students, all three of these issues boil down to having too much work and not knowing when to do it and struggling to keep up with it all. This is something that I too, have struggled with here in college and I've seen a lot of students fall very behind, sometimes to the point of dropping classes, and I think better organization of time would go a long way of preventing that. I hope I will be able to find a helpful tool to help students management their time better, and that can help me manage my time better, too.

The Final Making Connections Entry