Your approach makes as much sense as any. I’ve noticed that some people are more comfortable with ad-hoc assignment planning, and others like to know as far ahead of time as possible what reading they have to do and when.

This semester I’m taking a less assignment-centric approach to my studies, focusing instead on spending certain chunks of time throughout the week studying certain subjects. This way I (hopefully) won’t fall into the trap of spending less prep time on classes that have a deceptively small amount of reading.

Now, for longer-term project managing it could be a different story.