Social Life: Ways to balance school and hanging out
Prioritize
First, most importantly, and what you’ve probably heard many times before, it is so important to prioritize. On a daily basis, there are assignments to get done, there is work to get started on, and offers to go out come up. Unfortunately, there is no way to do all of them – and do all of them well – so we prioritize.
The Power of Saying No
Another important technique to master is the power of saying no. This is essential not only in these spheres, but in most of life.
Someone once told me, “If you make yourself available, people will take up as much of you as they can.” Whether it is friends, or group projects, or work, if you cannot say no, these things can take up way more time than you have for them