If there is one thing all college students can agree on, it’s that nothing can be more dreadful than sitting down to study for hours without end.
I, myself, am a huge culprit of the procrastination and circumvent that surrounds studying for school even in the smallest of instances. Sitting at my desk for hours, scrolling on my phone just feels a lot easier than spending even a fraction of that time with my nose stuck in a textbook you know? Eventually, at a point in my social media timelines, I came across the studying tool “The Pomodoro Technique” and decided to implement it into my studying time for the week.
The Pomodoro Technique is a time efficiency technique developed by Francesco Cirillo in the 1980s. It’s based on the idea that breaking your time into intervals is more productive. I would take one “Pomodoro,” which in my case was 25 minutes, and dedicate that time to one specific task decided on before I started my timer followed by a five-minute break. Generally, you would take three or four Pomodoros with short breaks and then follow them with a longer break.
Now, while using this technique wasn’t the groundbreaking solution to all my procrastination problems, it definitely felt like a push in the right direction. Twenty-five minutes is not a very long time, which sure goes by super-fast when you really apply yourself to focusing on just one task in that time and have a break to look forward to at the end. These increments of 25 minutes started to add up throughout the week and the week felt far more productive than my usual. The Pomodoro technique is something that I will continue to apply in the time I spend studying and is something that I highly encourage all active students to try.