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Adult students return to college with well defined goals, significant life experience, and maturity. In those areas they are generally ahead of their younger counterparts.

However, many adult students must overcome some challenges their younger counterparts never face.

Ask any adult student and he or she will tell you that it can be difficult to balance the demands of family, career, and education. Even online degree programs, which enable students to work anywhere they wish and set their own work schedules, require timely completion of assignments. And, students who find themselves continually behind are seldom successful.

Good time management skills and strong self-discipline, important to all students, are even more necessary to adults facing family, career, and academic demands.

And, even students with great time management skills often overlook one important technique. A technique which requires little effort but can pay big dividends.

It would be nice to be able to add hours to your days or days to your weeks. But, although that is not possible, finding unused fifteen minute periods of time is not. And, if you can find and use just two such periods each day, the result is three and a half hours a week...nearly fifteen hours a month...of additional time devoted to your studies.

What can you accomplish in fifteen minutes? You can read and/or revise a few pages of notes, reread a passage that is important or difficult, put together a study schedule for the week, begin or continue an outline for a paper, email a member of your study group, email a question to one of your professors, or do some research online.

No doubt about it; fifteen minutes is enough tme to get something done. And, how hard is it to find a few fifteen minute blocks of time? Get up fifteen minutes earlier. Read while eating lunch or dinner. Bring schoolwork with you whenever you anticipate waiting. Spend an extra fifteen minutes in your office at the end of the day. Read for fifteen minutes before going to sleep. The possibilities are almost without limit.

A perennial Dean's List student I know, who is in the Honor's Program at a major university, sits down to between fifteen and thirty minutes of study whenever she returns to her apartment. No matter where she has been or for how long, she never makes an exception. And, nobody remembers the last time (if ever) she earned a final grade below an "A".

Everyone can find two additional fifteen minute periods a day to spend on their studies. And, taking advantage of those small blocks of time really can turn a competent student into a high-achiever.

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Career educator Daniel Kane has developed more than a dozen educational websites. Among them are a site on the best twenty online colleges, and a site on distance degree programs.
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