The Timetable

Hopefully your University is incredibly organised and provides you with a very comprehensible, easy to understand timetable. Mine, I despair to admit, does not*. This prompted me to make my own, which I'm really rather happy with. A picture of one of the weeks in my timetable will be posted here.

Timetable 

1. Create a table in Word, 10 Columns, 6 Rows (8 if you include Sat/Sun)

2. Split the columns into timings. I went for hourly from 9am until 6pm 

3. Split the rows into days - just the day (not the date)

4. Add a "Week:" option down the bottom. 

5. Add in, electronically, all of the lectures that happen at specific times every single week. Anything that happens every 2 weeks, or irregularly shouldn't be added at this stage. 

6. Print it. Print enough copies to have one per week for the first term at least. 

Now, the boring part; 

Add in - 

1. Practicals (unless they're every single week on the same day at the same time

2. Deadlines

3. Tutorials 

4. Sports activities/hobbies

5. Personal events - booked holidays, trips home, parties you've agreed to 

6. Exams/tests 

Now the "fun" part; 

Add a colour scheme, with different indications for each time of event listed above. For mine I have - 

- Full, block line = lecture 

- Dash line = practical 

- Just the corners = tutorial 

- Lines going across the box = exam/test

- Lines going across the box with grey and a dashed border - deadline 

- Cross through it - cancelled 

I should also mention that each module has a different colour 

PHOL - green, CHEM - red, PHAR - orange, BIOC - blue, personal - pink

Do this for every week, if you know where the lecture is going to be then write it in, if you're like me and your university has a tendency to change locations then just leave it blank. 

*Well they do, but its not very good, rather confusing and includes lots of irrelevant stuff.