Part 1: Time Tracking
I took my spreadsheet and condensed it into a single pie chart using this website so I could easily see and analyze the proportions of time worked out for the recorded week. I divided my activities into seven categories: healthcare (red–mostly sleep and hygiene), personal activities (blue–grocery shopping and other things off campus), classes (grey green), homework (light green), relaxation (yellow), work-study (purple), and other (white–includes time walking between classes and generally non-designated time). So it went from this:
to this:
I was kind of surprised to find that I spent about the same amount of time relaxing as I did doing homework. Granted, a significant portion of the hours I spent doing homework were on Sunday, so that tells me I should spread out my homework more evenly between Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (and that doing so wouldn’t infringe upon my time for other activities, just reduce Sunday stress). Apart from that, I feel my schedule is pretty well balanced. I know a lot of students–or the majority of my friends, at least–don’t make a point of going to sleep before midnight. I do this, and it’s a factor of my daily routine that can clearly be seen in the pie chart with the healthcare (red) section being the largest by far. I also give myself a lot of time to eat breakfast and dinner. Had I given “eating” its own section, I think that would be evident, too.
Part 2: High School Work
