The topic of this blog was to be something about my weekend. Unfortunately, I worked two 10 hour shifts this weekend so I didn't really get to do anything, well thats a lie, but I didn't do anything appropriate to write about in this blog. Which brings us to today's topic; Time Management.
Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough time to do my homework and have any fun between working and going to class.
Any Western students reading this blog should hopefully remember what we were told at Orientation. The speaker told us to be careful about overcommiting ourselves to work and other activities outsdie of school. Each class is supposedly going to take two hours of study and homework time for every hour of actual class time. I have 15 credits and my five classes have about 18 hours of class time. So someone with 18 hours of class needs to set aside 54 hours a week for school. This part has a lot of math so bear with me. There are 168 hours in a week, so I subtracted my 54 hours a week for school, and 56 hours for sleep if I sleep 8 hours each day, finally I subtract my 33 hours a week for work. That leaves me with 25 hours of free time.
After working that out I'm actually pretty happy, now I know I have enough time to do my homework while I'm working and going to school full time. Since I have that 25 hours of free I know I have no excuse when I don't have my homework and errands done. Well, I do have one excuse: I didn't feel like it!
UPDATE!: I just found out my job worked around my college stuff, now I work only one weekday for 4 hours and then I work 5pm to 6am (not that bad for me I've done it for months at my other job.) on friday/sat plus one shift on sunday. Now I can sit on my butt weekend nights and somehow get more hours.
Mike, I must say that i like your actual excuse for not doing homework. I to have said that, but it never goes over very well. But I do have to say that I look forward to reading more about you.
ReplyDeleteWell, i'm glad to hear that your work schedule fits around your college life since thats probably the more important thing right now. I definately agree with you on the excuse for not doing homework, i'm such a procrastinator and then i just dont do it. Hopefully you'll write some interesting stories about your job so i can compare them to my restaurant job as well. :]
ReplyDeleteAye, I'm sitting on too much free time right now, so trying to find a job that fits into my schedule (pretty easy with Friday, Saturday, Sunday off). I've actually been using some of the excess to work on languages - namely, learning more Japanese and reacquiring Spanish. Though, there's more than a good share of Xbox while I'm waiting for my classes to pick up some more - I'm really antsy with lower work loads.
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