{"id":3771,"date":"2026-10-27T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:44:46","slug":"finding-your-feet-at-kent-getting-into-a-routine-and-keeping-on-top-of-your-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/10\/27\/finding-your-feet-at-kent-getting-into-a-routine-and-keeping-on-top-of-your-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding your feet: Keeping on top of your studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new academic year can mean new routines, teaching styles and deadlines. It may take a little time to find your rhythm, so start with a few manageable steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Check your timetable<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Plan your travel<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Set aside a regular time to study<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When coursework feels like a lot, check your course information, note key dates and break bigger assignments into smaller tasks. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/studies\/academic-advisers#find\">Academic Adviser<\/a> can help you understand what\u2019s expected and talk through your progress.<\/p>\n<p>Kent\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/studies\/skills-for-academic-success\">Skills for Academic Success (SAS)<\/a> team offers appointments, workshops and study resources on planning assignments, academic writing, time management, revision and exams.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a course-related question, your <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/studies\/school-support-teams\">School\u2019s support team<\/a> can help. For questions about university processes, accommodation, IT or other services, contact or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/support\">Nexus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to get everything organised at once. Choose a first step that feels useful, then take it from there.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in our <strong>Finding Your Feet<\/strong> series<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/news\/3775\/finding-your-feet-at-kent-finding-your-people-and-getting-involved\">Finding your people<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/news\/3779\/finding-your-feet-at-kent-getting-help-with-money-housing-and-commuting\">Money, housing and commuting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/news\/3782\/finding-your-feet-at-kent-balancing-study-wellbeing-and-everything-else\">Finding a study\/life balance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new academic year can mean new routines, teaching styles and deadlines. It may take a little time to find your rhythm, so start with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/10\/27\/finding-your-feet-at-kent-getting-into-a-routine-and-keeping-on-top-of-your-studies\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87073,"featured_media":3772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312383,205698],"tags":[314665],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-academic-support","tag-finding-your-feet"],"sub_title":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}