When the assignment was given to record every hour of our days I have to say I was nervous. I knew there would be a lot of sleeping and eating but I didn't realize just how much time i spent on miscellaneous. Most nights are spent in the upstairs lobby doing homework yet i really don't get much work done in the end. I technically am doing homework but It's probably a sentence every half hour if I really focus. It wasn't so much the map of my time that opened my eyes but the result. I saw how many hours I spend "doing homework" and if i really spent all that time applying myself I would have finished every single blog for this class by now. Its a disappointing realization that I have terrible study skills. I've always been an average student but seeing it written down on paper that all my time Ins't adding up is disheartening. As corny as this sounds I think this assignment really made a difference in my life. I kind of see now that I need to completely remove myself from the world and get done what I came here to do or else my parents are paying for nothing. Not everyone has this opportunity and I feel as if I'm squandering it when I spend all my time just hanging around stressing out about all the work I have to do. We read in an article this week about how trying to change everything at once doesn't work and I think that's why I have had such a hard time managing my time here. Ive tried to do everything at once and make it all perfect when I need to take one step at a time. The first step being not thinking of all the work I have to do as motivation. Negative motivation doesn't work I recently found out so maybe I should spend more time actually doing things than talking about how unpleasant they will be.
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