Procuring your MBA provides you with the opportunity to expand your personal skills set and to grow in your field. However, it also requires a significant amount of work. When you want to reduce the level of stress you feel, you can integrate some suggestions into your routine.
Ask for a Tutor
If you’re obtaining your MBA in marketing or another business-related degree, you might want to consider asking for a tutor. However, this person should be another student who already taken your course (or a similar subject) and performed well in it. Don’t be afraid to ask for transcripts if you’re hiring a private tutor!
Acknowledging that you don’t know everything and learning how to ask for help are two skills that can assist you in your career. Most colleges have tutoring services available. Sitting down to work one-on-one with a tutor can help you to absorb a concept that currently seems impossible to understand.
Pursue Social Opportunities
Dedicating all of your time to studying and completing assignments might land you with a perfect grade point average, but it might also make you regret how you spent your graduate-school days in the future. While you don’t need to go out every night of the week, look into organizations and clubs on campus that you can join. Building social bonds helps you to stay mentally and emotionally healthy, and you might even get the chance to build a study group or to network.
Care for Your Health
If you are constantly falling behind on sleep and not eating the right food, you are likely to experience exhaustion. This level of exhaustion can cause problems with school work, and you may even start to question if you even belong in the program. Getting in enough exercise can help to boot you physically and mentally as well. In fact, Ohio University reported that students with fitness memberships at university had 13 percent higher GPAs than those who didn’t.
Stay Ahead and Organized
When you leave major assignments until the night before they are do, you may like how the pressure motivates you to work harder. However, even the most skilled procrastinator in the world needs to do at least some advanced planning at some point in graduate school or your MBA may suffer. Writing down each assignment in a planner helps to give you a sense of satisfaction when you get to check it off. In addition to that benefit, you can also visually see how much work you have to do on a specific day and plan ahead for busy weeks.
Your MBA program will help you in the future, but before you start thinking too far in advance, take the time to better your situation now.
Hannah Whittenly is a freelance writer and mother of two from Sacramento, CA. She enjoys kayaking and reading books by the lake. You can follow her on twitter and LinkedIn.
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