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When you are a student in college with other responsibilities; whether it is a job or family related. Your time is valuable and can be difficult to manage at times. In the article, “7 Time Management Tips for Online Students” by Kelsey Miller, she mentions how one of the best skills to have as students is time management and gives her advice on how to manage it. In this reading Miller emphasizes a useful idea to help keeping students organized, focused, and more importantly avoiding burn out. As students some of us tend to feel overwhelmed when trying to study for long time periods and get distracted from the school work. Kelsey Miller offers a solution called the Pomodoro Method to help students that struggle with this. This method helps the student concentrate for 25 minutes straight and then a 5 minute break, after 4 full sessions of this the student is rewarded with a 15 minute break. This is a method I will incorporate into my studies and in hopes of it benefiting my academics. Miller informs students to plan ahead for assignments so we will have a lay out and make time to attack each assignment accordingly. This can go hand and hand with the Pomodoro Method in making completing assignments easier and less stressful while managing our time in the best way. Miller did a superb job on advising college students on managing our time in the best way possible. Time is essential and when it is gone there will be no getting it back. Time management is the most important skill a student can learn and will payoff in the long run as students.