On Thursday, I will ask you to begin a week's worth of Self-Study on how you use your time. I want you to make a chart of all the hours in the week (each day) and mark on the chart how many hours you spend doing all of the things that take up your time:
1. sleeping
2. getting ready to go to class
3. eating
4. going to class
5. doing homework
6. socializing
7. playing sports
8. on facebook, twitter, instagram, texting, etc.
9. participating in a club or hobby
10. whatever else fills your days
This will allow you to see how much time you spend per week on various activities and let you know if you need to plan your weeks differently or not. Also, it will allow us to see how many hours you spend on learning outside of class and if you are meeting your expectations for that aspect of college work. You can make a handwritten chart for yourself or make a spreadsheet using Excel. I found a model for a Time Study Sheet here: http://ldadvisory.com/time_management_tool. You can adapt this version or use it as a template. It was originally intended as a time management tool, but can also serve for our Self-Study. Note that it doesn't contain all of the "middle of the night" hours, assuming you are sleeping, so you can add those in or just add the extra hours of sleep at the bottom.
By next Thursday, I will expect you to have something to bring to class which accounts for all of the hours you spent in that one week.
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