The core move
Most students overestimate free time and underestimate how long work takes. A coach walks you through a real audit of last week, then helps you build a template with study time scheduled like a class — specific, protected, and matched to when you actually focus.
Keeping it going
A plan fails in week three when something slips. The check-ins exist for exactly that: you bring what fell apart, and the coach helps you rebuild instead of abandoning the whole system. Free, confidential, any student.
In and around Porter Falls
Support at Porter is deliberately clustered on the first two levels of Halvorsen Library so a student can move from one kind of help to another without leaving the building or re-explaining the situation. Walk-in hours run late Monday through Thursday during the semester, and everything can also be booked through MyPorter.
The practical details
Session one: Map every fixed commitment, then place study blocks around them realistically. Follow-ups: Adjust what isn't working; most students need two or three rounds. Tools: A paper or digital planner template, and a simple time-audit exercise. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Student Success Center (Halvorsen Library, Level 1). Call (715) 555–0170 or email success@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.