Balance Your College Life with Google Calendar

Calendars and appointments may seem like a necessary evil you'll deal with after graduation, but getting started with Google Calendar in college can make your day-to-day life seem much less frantic and random. Here's a primer on getting started with free tools.

We're no strangers to Google Calendar here at HackCollege, but we're also strong believers in making the best web applications that much better. Google Labs does its part to create, develop, and enhance features available for Google Calendar, but Google Calendar can work well for students without added features or enhancements

How, you ask? By maintaining multiple calendars for your multifaceted college life.

If you use Google Calendar online, you've got nothing to worry about. Everything will be normal. If you use a desktop calendar application, you can either individually sync each calendar or bundle them all into one link, as Kelly describes here.

I'm not talking about adding in your sports team's schedule (though that can certainly be involved) but I'm talking about making different calendars for areas of your life—specifically that for your school life and commitments, your entertainment choices, your work life, your Facebook events, your roommates and friends' events, and your personal life.

Here's how it looks:

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