This post is all about the good habits for students to start right now.
Are you struggling in your academic career? Is that why you clicked on this post? Lucky for you I can tell you all about the good habits for students that you should start right now that would get you out of your rut.
When I was in high school, I thought I knew all the good habits for students. I knew that I had to study, ask questions, and do everything I was told to do. Little did I know there was much more to it besides the stuff that is directly school-related.
This post is meant to help you prepare for when you go to college or to help you now if you’re struggling in college. I wish I knew about these good habits for students before I started college, but I am also glad that I know them now. Because I have this knowledge, I thought it was only appropriate that I shared it with you too.
This post is all about the good habits for students to start right now.
Disclaimer
I am not an expert in good habits for students; however, I am a college student myself so I have opinions. I repeat, these are my personal opinions and should be used for informational purposes only. You, the reader, will read at your own risk and I will not be liable or held responsible for any consequences that arise from your following my advice.
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Let’s begin.
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7 Good Habits For Students To Start Right Now
1. Sleeping 8+ Hours
Every college student needs to make sleeping the right amount of hours a priority. Most college students probably get 6 hours or less. At least that is how it is for me.
Students may be working late nights at their part-time job or studying late at night for an exam they have the next day. Or you have the stereotypical college students like you see in the movies that are out partying at friend houses or in the club (which is very unrealistic I might add).
But no matter what it is that you’re doing that is making you lose sleep, you need to stop it.
The reason why sleep is so important is that this is the time when your body is processing your memories and recovering from the hard work it went through during the day. If you’re lacking in sleep, your body won’t get the sufficient amount of time it needs to recover.
Your brain will start to function less than what it is capable of too and it’ll affect your academics greatly.
As young adults, we need to be getting at least 8+ hours of sleep. The recommended amount of sleep that adults (aka us) should be getting is 7-9 hours but for me, 8+ is the sweet spot.
It is very important that you prioritize sleep. Set bedtime alarms, say no to social events, or cut them short. Just do something.
2. Exercising
Exercising is another activity that every college student should make into a habit. This activity has many short-term and long-term benefits too.
For the short-term, exercising has the reputation of giving you a boost of energy and making you feel more productive than before you exercised.
For the long-term, you are preventing plenty of illnesses that could arise in your future and are continuously working on your self-confidence.
Most of the time when students are in college, they compare themselves to the other students a lot. Other students are probably making loads of friends and going to lots of social events while we are alone in our bedrooms.
These thoughts can take a big punch at our self-confidence and exercise can help combat that.
I only recently realized the importance of incorporating exercise into my daily routine. I get lazy every now and then but I am always thinking about it. Whenever I exercise, I begin to feel more comfortable in my body and start to appreciate all it does for me too.
I feel much happier all-around.
As college students, it is very easy to neglect our bodies because of how distracted we are by academics, work, friends, and family. If you’re a stressed college student, exercising is a natural de-stressor too *wink wink*.
3. Remembering to Eat and Eating The Right Foods
Like I said before, it can get hectic and busy when being a college student. It’s important that we fuel our body with the food it needs to continue doing these activities and not crash out.
At my college, they require first-year students that are living on campus to purchase meal plans. At first, I thought this was unfair and unnecessary. Now that I have experienced college life, I find myself forgetting to eat very often.
It’s not exactly that I forget to eat. It’s more of me thinking about eating but not wanting to stop doing what I am doing to prepare food.
Sure, college students will probably snack to ensure we are at least putting something in our bodies but most of the time, we don’t reach for healthy options. Opening a bag of chips is much easier than washing and cutting apple slices.
I would recommend you try to designate time during the week to make a meal plan for yourself and cook in bulk. Then whenever it is meal time, all you have to do is take it out, heat it up, and eat it.
4. Drinking Lots Of Water
I am a firm believer in water being the best solution to everything. You should aim to drink at least 64 fluid ounces of water a day. This is roughly about 4 plastic water bottles worth of water.
If you are more physically active, you should be drinking more than 64 fluid ounces.
If you find yourself being hungry but don’t want to get up and get food, at least sip on some water. Water doesn’t have the same body effects as food but since our bodies are made up of mostly water, this means that water is just as important as food if not more important.
It’s really easy to forget drinking water more than forgetting to eat. This is because when we are feeling empty in our stomachs, we automatically think we need food. However, most of the time when you’re feeling hungry when it’s not mealing time, you’re just thirsty.
I have noticed that when I don’t drink enough water, I start feeling hungry, tired, and all-around grumpy.
Drinking water also naturally rids your body of toxins. A good indicator of whether you drink a healthy amount of water is to look at your urine.
It is recommended to have light yellow urine and not deep yellow urine! The lighter the urine, the more hydrated and clean you are (at least that’s how I think of it because that is what I have always been told).
Urinating is how the body rids your body of toxins so drinking more water only makes sense.
If you think there is something wrong with your body, feel like you’re about to shut down, and your urine is deep yellow, drink some water and see how you feel afterward.
School Benefits
In regards to school, if you drink more water and stay hydrated, your brain and mind will function much easier.
Drinking water not only clears your body but clears your mind of any cloudiness or distracted thoughts too. These distracting thoughts would be about how tired you feel or how hungry or thirsty you are.
But if you drink water and keep your body in a healthy state all day long, you’ll be able to keep your focus solely on your schoolwork. (This is how it works for me so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work for you too.)
Drinking water can quite literally solve all your problems!
5. Meeting Deadlines
Another really good habit for students is meeting deadlines.
Going to college is when most students take on more responsibilities and learn how to maintain healthy habits that they might gain. (Most college students also learn unhealthy habits but that is not what I am here to talk about.)
The point of having deadlines is so that students are learning how to manage their time wisely and professors can see the students’ learning progress in a timely manner. Not only do deadlines affect you but it affects the professor too.
When students meet deadlines, it shows that they are responsible adults and will gain more respect from the people around them because of it.
You’ll also avoid falling behind if everything gets turned in on time. As college students, falling behind is the last thing we need.
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6. Treating School Like a Full-Time Job
I guess this isn’t really a good habit for students but is more of a good mindset for students to have. (Maybe these both mean the same thing. Whoops.)
But anyway, if students were to treat school like full-time jobs, they would be dedicating 8 am to 5 pm as their full-on school study time.
Students could take this time to keep their phones away like they would at a full-time job. They would also say no to everything that has nothing to do with school during that time period.
I actually heard about this mindset from one of my old high school teachers. When she was in college, she did school for 9 hours a day. As soon as 5 pm hit, she stopped school work and relaxed for the rest of the night.
I’m sure whenever you have important projects or important exams to study for, then this mindset doesn’t apply but having this kind of look on school ensures that you can put 100% of your focus on school and are dedicating the needed 100% of your time and effort into it.
I have yet to implement this habit into my life but I am trying. My phone and friends just easily distract me so I end up doing homework all the way until 9 pm every night *sad face*.
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7. Going Out At Least Once Every Week
“Uhm, Lily-Anne, how is this a good habit for students?”
I decided to add in that students should go out once every week because colleges students need breaks too. It is very common for students to burn out and lose motivation because they overworked themselves.
If you give yourself that little break to go out and have a social life, it helps you appreciate your life more and reset your mind. You have to maintain your sanity somehow. I think going out and getting away from anything school-related every now and then is the way to go.
There was a time when I was trying to get an assignment done as soon as possible but was also invited to go out to dinner. I almost skipped dinner because I thought I would run out of time to finish the assignment. But what I realized was that when I got back, it was easier to focus on the assignment than before I had gone to dinner.
The dinner allowed my brain to take a rest and process what I had done before and to pick up where I left off but with a clearer mind.
Ending Note
What did you think about these 7 good habits for students? Do you agree with them? Are these habits that you need to implement into your life? If so, which ones would you need to start?
There is this one influencer that I watch who inspires me to develop better daily habits for myself. You have probably heard me talk about her before in my 5 Female Influencers That Give Inspiration For A Better Life.
The influencer I am referring to is Linh Truong. She doesn’t exactly do all of the good habits for students that I listed above but she inspires me to do whatever I think is good for me and makes me happy. This applies even if my daily habits and her daily habits are different because we are different people.
My college life has improved significantly since I started implementing these better daily habits into my daily life. I think this is a pretty solid list and I hope that you think so too.
I can’t wait for you to start bettering your life as a college student. Have a good day!
This post was all about the good habits for students to start right now.
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