Juggling family, friends, careers, hobbies and academics can be a complex and delicate process. Use the resources below to help you learn ways to work smarter and more efficiently.

  •  â€“ Cal Poly's Academic Skills Center provides a brief overview of procrastination and tips to prevent it.
  •  â€“ This link leads to "A Procrastination Preview," a 3 minute video tutorial on overcoming procrastination. It is part of the excellent, and free, Coursera course, "Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects."

As an 91ºÚÁÏÍø student, you will spend much of your study time reading and responding to textbooks, journal articles, and other types of academic materials.  Fortunately, there are note-taking techniques available that can improve your ability to find and organize key concepts efficiently and effectively.

  • --A workshop on taking notes both with pen and paper and digitally from 91ºÚÁÏÍø Empire's Academic Support..
  •  - a free and open-source tool for highlighting  taking notes online in your web browser.
  • –The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) website provides an exercise in one way to be more effective in taking notes from your textbooks.
  • –Cal Poly's Academic Skills Center provides examples of note-taking methods such as mapping, charting and the Cornell Note-taking Method.

For additional support with time-management, procrastination or note-taking, please contact Academic Support at  Academic.Support@sunyempire.edu.

If you have links to time-management, procrastination or note-taking resources that you would like to share or suggestions for improving this website, please send them to Academic.Support@sunyempire.edu.