All This Free Time

   In college you have so much time on your hands. With all this time comes procrastination. Procrastination is putting off work until a later time. In high school I would procrastinate all the time. Whenever I had a project due I would wait until the day before to do it. I knew once i got to college I would have to change that. So I did. In my INQ class, my professor asked the class to write down everything that we do for a whole week straight to see see how much time we spend doing homework and how much time we spend doing other things. I found that so far I'm balancing my time pretty good. I most of my work before its due that way I have more time for me. Even though I get most of the work done, I still get off track when I'm doing the work. My roommates are a HUGE distraction. I spend all of my time with my roommate because were just that close. When we try to do our work we start to goof around and it takes us a little longer to do some work. But I found a way to manage my time. I found that making a schedule works best for me. On Thursdays I get out of my last class at 4:30pm and as soon as I get out I make a To Do List of all the things that I have to do before my next class. Usually on Thursday I do a draft of my next blog post and my online math homework. Then throughout the weekend I spread out all of the readings that I have to do. I usually spend about 10 hours all weekend reading and writing down my notes. During the week I do my homework as soon as I get it for each class so I'm not back up on the weekend and this way I don't have to rush at the last minute to try to get it done. It is very easy to get side tracked when you have have a lot of extra time before and after classes. So find a strategy that works for you, so your time will be manage.