Mini-project/ HON 110  Time Diary

Begin Sept 3 and Due on Sept 17

Keep a diary of how you actually spend your time. Over the next two weeks, use the weekly calendar to record how you have spent your time.  Be sure to have each day of the week represented (so at least 7 of the 14 days).  Here is a calendar to use:  but note- I only copied a calendar that goes from 6 am to 1am- but if you need to show all 24 hours, be my guest, and create your own.

Before you start, list 8 categories of activities that are very important to you (sleep, eat, study, practice piano, work, grooming, star gazing, reading for fun, watching TV, exercising, attending class, …) -- that you have as your priorities for how you plan to spend your time in college.  Write these at the top of the weekly calendar.  Estimate about what % of the time you want to spend on each in YOUR IDEAL WEEK.  Write down your ideal %ages.

Then for each hour of each day for the minimum of 7 days, you should write in WHICH of these priority activities you did.  If you did something other than your 8 priority activities, then write “other” (If you want to try to keep track of the other things, you can.)  For this exercise, you can only list 2 activities MAX per hour (even if you did more- choose the top 2) and then when you figure percentages- you have to split the hour in half.  If sleeping was included in your 8 (hope so), don’t forget you may have actually slept during some of the time not showing on your schedule.

At the end of the week, figure out percentages for each of the 8 activities, plus other.  If math is not your forte, be sure to ask me or one of your friends to help you figure out these %s before you compare actual and ideal.

For Sept 17: Read the Prompts for Essay D.  Choose one and also incorporate these points into the prompt you choose.

1.       Compare your ideal and actual percentages.  Did you come close to your ideal?  Why or why not?

2.       Do you feel happy with your time management so far in college?  How is it different from high school?

3.       Are there areas that you feel like you need to work on?  What are your ideas?

4.       Did you use any of the tips described in your readings?  If so, what was helpful?  What did not work for you?

5.       Do you plan to use the same time management for the rest of the semester?  Why or why not?

6.       Turn in your completed weekly calendar.  This does not count as one of the pages J.

7.       Other comments, reactions, surprises….