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21 mark down those times you intend to use for study . Remember that, to do your best work in a college class, you generally need one-and-a-half to two hours outside of class for every hour in class. A student taking 16 credit hours generally needs 24-32 hours of study time per week in order to do there best work. Now one can often get by with less studying than this. One can often even get an “A” with less studying than this. But if you really want to get out of your classes what you should get out of them, plan on studying at least 24 hours per week outside of class. STEP FIVE—AVOID TIME WASTERS Make a list of the specific things that cause you to waste time (or of things you spend time on that you really shouldn’t spend so much time on). Then make a plan to deal with those time-wasters. Talking too much on the phone a problem? Plan to limit your calls to ten minutes—and put a clock by your phone. Television a big time-water for you? Get rid of the television altogether. By the way, you should not have television in your dorm room—and you probably shouldn’t watch television at all while you’re a student. There are too many great things happening on this campus to spend your time glued to the boob tube. One potentially big time-waster to watch out for in college is emotionally parasitic people. There are on every college campus people who, if you let them, will try to latch onto you as a special friend, and insist that you spend all sorts of time with them, time that could be far better spent. And often it doesn’t do much good. Such people are really their own worst enemies, and they generally refuse to change. Anyway, choose your friends with care and avoid dependent personality types. And you women in particular, beware the dangers of “therapeutic” relationships, especially therapeutic romantic relationships. Leave the therapy to the counselors.