Prioritize: Drop the side projects, or limit them to e.g one hour a week. Reduce or dual-purpose the social life - are your friends interested in joining you at

Prioritize: Drop the side projects, or limit them to e.g one hour a week. Reduce or dual-purpose the social life - are your friends interested in joining you at a code night where you do homework and they do side projects, instead of wasting precious time at a bar? Drop down to part-time work, could be 4 days a week, or even 4.5 (take every second Wednesday off for schoolwork? Or every Monday morning?) Quit school, or just take a semester off. Get a cleaner in once a a week. Allocate money and some upfront planning time to reduce food prep time (but don't just drop the quality of your food). Pick at least one of the above. If it's not enough, pick another one too. Keep going until you can cope. Also, slightly counter-intuitively, add some time scheduled for exercise and make sure you get a good minimum amount of sleep (varies between people, start by aiming for 6-8 hours and if you're still tired, aim higher). Keeping yourself healthy will increase your ability to cope with stress. All this assumes that you actually are overloaded, and not just disorganised. If you can't guarantee that you are spending all your time on useful things, then try keeping a journal of what you do every 15 minutes for a week, look over it at the end of the week and pick out lost time like watching tv, then cut those activities. Schedule yourself down to half hour blocks, or fifteen minute blocks if you can, so you know you're not losing time everywhere.