After looking over my actions from a couple of days ago, I was curious to see what my typical schedule looks like since I don’t really pay attention to how much time passes by when doing things throughout the day. Well, let’s take a look then.
Note: All values are in hours. Just imagine that I sleep right on midnight, and you’ll get roughly the actual time things happens too (which is pretty accurate). Also, “etc.” just means anything else that I feel like doing at the time. The first item in a series is not always done.
I really should rethink the way I set aside time for the future…
Tool used: Create A Graph
I think there needs to be more time devoted to creating pie charts. There is a shortage of pie charts on this website!
Also, only six hours of sleep? Should I expect that in college?
Six hours may be standard for some people depending on how often you study, involve yourself in extracurricular activities, or devote yourself to your projects. Some people get less than that.
Me, I’m just a night owl, so 12 midnight is really the earliest I feel comfortable sleeping at when I’m not that tired. Even then it takes a while to fall asleep, but I still manage to get up when I need to.
@KirbyM: As long as spend your time wisely during the day (ie do homework/study before going on the computer) you can have more sleep at night. Time management ftw.
They may call it “time management” but I feel that’s a poor name for the art. Heck, I was dissuaded from looking into it for years and missed out on a lot because of that name. My current line of thought goes like this:
- We are not omniscient. Unexpected things always happen which either delay work we need to get done, or present opportunities which we should act on if we know what’s good for us.
- We are also inefficient with concentration. The mind will inevitably wander and think about other things or heck, talk to people.
- Having said that, not having any plan whatsoever means you’ll be going through your time in ‘standby mode’, stuff you do while waiting for better instructions.
- Those instructions need to come from ourselves. As we grow up, we get less of adults telling us what we ought to do.
- Setting up a schedule isn’t an act of arrogant vanity. You acknowledge that you won’t stick with it perfectly: the first casualty on the battlefield are the battle plans.
- The schedule acts as a reference point. You will still be inefficient and not get as much done as you’d hope. However, if you don’t have any plan, you will end up looping around in ‘standby’ mode waiting forever to do something productive
- That is: having a plan is not so much anally sticking to it as generating morale to get at least something productive done.
Oh and KirbyM, the amount of sleep you get at college depends entirely on what sort of lifestyle you want to set up. 6 hours is perfectly survivable. 4 hours is where you start seeing the innate differences between individuals: people exist who can live on it but it’s not easy and depends greatly on what they’re actually doing in their days.