Do you ever find that there simply is not enough time in the day to balance all of the aspects of your daily life? I was right there with you.
After tracking everything I did every hour of the past week, I have realized what I need to change in order to use my time as wisely as possible.
As a full-time student who commutes, has a part-time job, pets to care for, and a personal life to maintain, it can be extremely difficult to allot the right amount of time to each area of my life. The suggested amount of time which every college student should spend on studying and doing homework is 40 hours per week. Through my recording I realized that I only did about 23 hours this week. This number did not appear to be accurate because I honestly feel like all I do every day is homework. Then, I realized that I get half of my homework done every week while I'm at work on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. (I am at work typing this blog post as we speak) While I was tracking my activities, I did not take into account the 16 hours a week I am at work (most of which are spent doing homework). I am employed at a real estate agency where I do a lot of computer-based work, and the weekends this time of year are very slow, so I take that opportunity to get a lot done for my classes. I felt much better after making that realization. On average I put hours in the high 30s toward doing homework/studying every week. Therefore, in that respect, I feel that I am right where I need to be in order to be successful.
On the other hand, I calculated that I socialize or relax on my own for about 30 hours a week. This number was actually extremely surprising to me; this aspect of my daily life took up much more time than I had expected. I did not feel like I had that much down time in the past week, but it is definitely a good thing. I believe that we should try to balance out our schedules so that we spend an almost equal amount of time getting the necessities done as we do relaxing. Maintaining that equilibrium in your life is the only way to keep yourself from going insane.
I do not typically have a huge issue with procrastination, however, that monster got to me a little bit this week. I admittedly procrastinated on my blog posts...
Maybe if I had taken a little extra time writing them, instead of saving them for the last minute, my grade last week would have been better. Procrastination gets the best of us all from time to time, but this schedule of my day-to-day activities really helped me pinpoint exactly what I am procrastinating on. I will take this as a learning experience by using my free time more wisely, and hopefully this week will turn out better!
In the future weeks and semesters to come, I will try to make a strict schedule of when I need to get certain assignments done. This will help me to avoid procrastinating and instead become proactive. I feel that over all I am on a fairly good path so far this semester. I will start working on eliminating my distractions when work needs to be done, and from then on, the rest should be smooth sailing.
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