The time study assignment really made me think and reflect how I should be spending my time while here at college. When I finished the study last night before I went to bed, I quickly glanced at what I had completed this week and noticed how busy I was during the school week and how relaxed my weekends were. From the second I woke up on the weekdays I was always doing something until I went to bed later than evening. I was either in class, eating meals, studying in the library, or at cheerleading practice. This was nothing new to me though, my days in high school ran just as busy. Monday - Friday I would wake up, go to school, go to work and then go to practice. When I came home from practice around nine o’clock I then would have to complete my homework and assignments that might be due the next day. Being just as busy as I was in high school probably helped me adjust to college with ease. Even though I am doing something at almost all point of the day, it doesn’t stress me out. Always having a class to go to or homework to be worked on keeps me focused all day.
During the time study, I studied and worked on assignments for a total of 22 hours on the weekdays and only 4 hours on the weekend. The reasoning to why my time working on assignments on the weekdays is so much greater than my work completed on the weekend is because I am already in the mood to study from being in class for a couple hours before hand. Usually right after my classes are done for the day, I grab something quick to eat to head to the library to complete my homework. This is something I started doing even the first week of classes because I knew I needed to create a habit of going to a quiet place to do my work or else I knew I would never get any work done. On the weekends though, I try to relax and hang out with friends as much as possible because I spend most of my school week studying and doing homework. Though my weekends are mostly relaxing, I do try to find time to complete assignments that may be due that following monday. By either starting or completely finishing an assignment on the weekend helps make it easier when Monday rolls around and I’m stressing out because I didn’t realize how much work I should’ve been doing on my time off from classes. As of right now I believe I am devoting enough of my time to studying as I can at the moment. It is suggest that college students study 30-40 hours a week, but right now I am only studying 26 hours a week. I think that this is a perfect balance for my work load right now. I am completing all of my assignments on time and handing in quality work with the time I have been using to study. As I begin to get used to college and what my professors will be expecting of me, I’m sure I will slowly increase the time I spend studying to reach 30-40 hours a week. Right now though, that is an impossible amount of time to study with only in the 5th week of the semester. As the semester starts to wrap up and I am thrown into more exams, projects and finals, I am certain that the time I spend studying will increase. I am content with my 26 hours of studying as of right now.
When I wasn’t studying, I was most likely socializing with friends or at practice. I spent 24 hours socializing and 13 hours at cheerleading during the time study. I spent a total of 37 hours socializing and practicing last week which is more time than I spent studying. I had no control of how many hours I would be practicing because that is based of my coaches, but I do have control over how many hours I spend with friends. I am proud that I spent less time socializing and more time working on school work. I am able to manage almost equal hours studying and socializing which is a key to success in college. Though I am here to get an education, being social is all important to achieving your degree at the end of your four years in college. On the weekends me and my friends relax and do something fun as a reward for working hard all week. We try to take a couple hours each day to meet up and talk during meals so were not only just working on school related things. Balancing school work and a social life was one of the many things I was nervous about when I came to college and I am very proud that so far I have been doing a good job finding a balance between the two.
Surprisingly I don’t procrastinate on many things. When I go to the library I have a set list of assignments I need to get done before I leave and I do a good job of sticking to that list. Occasionally I’ll take what I plan to be a five minute break to check my phone to go on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram but I find myself spending 10-15 minutes more than I had expected. When I get distracted like that it takes me quite a while to get back into the assignment I was working on, I waste a lot of time doing this. Sometimes if I find that my phone is distracting me from my work I give it to my friend to hold onto while we're in the library until we leave. With my phone being out of sight, out of mind, I am able to focus on my school work and get everything I need to get done.
I think my time management so far this semester has been excellent. Going to the library at the end of my academic day helps me get focused and started on my homework. Throughout the rest of the semester I am planning to sticking to how I plan my study times and my social times because so far it has been working to my advantage. 
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