So what did I really do today?

For this blog post, I’ll be examining one of my days to determine my overall productivity and time expenditure, and what my time was spent on. The day I’ve chosen is yesterday, September 27, 2011.

This was a particularly good day which I felt to be very productive, overall. At this point in my academic career at Tech, I’ve finally started to get the hang of how to juggle my schoolwork and activities, and I’m getting better at time management and avoiding procrastination.

My first class isn’t until 12:00 p.m., but I’ll wake up early to get ahead on some schoolwork and check my Facebook. I wake up at 9:30, and spend the next thirty minutes preparing for the day. After I’m dressed and ready for the day, I check my Facebook account and email, and reply to any emails that require an immediate response.

I then get to work at my desk on my health project that’s due Thursday, and finish most of it by 11:30 a.m., when I head out for brunch at Brittain Dining Hall. I give myself about 15 minutes to eat brunch with a few friends. I leave Brittain at 11:45a.m., and run by Buzzby to get a snack for later. I arrive at Calc recitation at around 12:00 p.m., and get my results back from my second test.

After asking a few questions about what I missed, I leave recitation at 12:55 p.m. I then head to my usual study spot on the fourth floor of the library, and I get there around 1:00 p.m. From 1:00 to 2:45 p.m., I work on finishing my Health project and working ahead on my Chemistry homework that’s due Friday. Once I’m around 40% of the way done with my Chemistry homework, I start work on my direct examination for Mock Trial later tonight, and I finish just before I leave for COE 1000 at 2:45 p.m.

I make it to Boggs B6, where COE 1000 is held, around 2:00 p.m., because I stopped to talk with some friends I ran into on the way over. Today’s COE 1000 presentation is on Civil and Environmental Engineering, and we get out of class around ten minutes early. I head back to the library to print my Health project and put the finishing touches on and print my Mock Trial examination. By this time, it’s around 4:15 p.m., so I decide to head on over to the Howey Physics building, where my Health class is held at 4:30 p.m., because Dr. Decker likes to start class a few minutes early.

In Health, we view a presentation on applied physiology, and class gets over around 5:25 p.m. I spend a few minutes after class talking to the presenter, and asking Dr. Decker a few final questions about my project that’s due Thursday.

Around 5:30, I head to the Society of Women Engineers meeting in the Flag Building with a friend, so that we can get good seats for the presentation and to take advantage of the free supper the SWE offers. When we arrive, they’re having Italian food, which I don’t like, so I run over to the Student Center and pick up some Taco Bell for supper. Back at the meeting, a representative from General Mills speaks about techniques for success at career fairs, and gives away several prizes.

After SWE, I pick up some coffee from the vending machine in the Flag Building and head to Mock Trial in D.M. Smith at 7:00 p.m. At practice, we go over and revise the direct examination I typed up earlier, as well as the statement of the other witness I’ll be portraying. Both of my lawyers have to leave at 8:00 p.m., so my captain lets me leave too.

I arrive back at my dorm, just in time for the new NCIS episode, and while I’m watching, I check my email and Facebook and call my parents to check up on them. At 9:00 p.m., when NCIS is over, NCIS:LA comes on, and I’m working on my blog entry for GT 1000 and texting my boyfriend, who has a major test tomorrow.
            Around 10:00 p.m., I take a break from my blog assignment to do the assigned reading for my GT 1000 class the next day, as well as updating my planner and reviewing for my quiz in English 1102 tomorrow. After reading a few articles about the movies and skimming through the play, I go back to finishing my blog entry, which I’ll revise tomorrow after my Chemistry class. I finish up my article, and go to bed by 11:15 p.m.

My goals for September 27, 2011 were:

·         To finish up my Health project, which I’d started some on Monday.

·         To wake up early, rather than sleeping in.

·         To make it to all my classes on time.

·         To get ahead on my Chemistry homework that’s due Friday.

·         To get my Mock Trial direct examination revised and typed up.

·         To attend the SWE and Mock Trial meetings Tuesday night.

·         To get in bed before 11:30 p.m.

·         To finish my blog entry tonight, rather than tomorrow after Chemistry.

I accomplished all these goals successfully, so today was a really good day for me. The past

week, I was fairly stressed about accomplishing everything I had to do, and I was even considering quitting Mock Trial. This week, however, seems to be off to a much better start.

            Despite my best efforts, however, I did waste some time on Facebook that I could have put to better use. This time only amounted to around 30 minutes for the entire day, though I spent another 30 minutes catching up on the current news. Also, I got distracted while working on my blog entry because of NCIS and NCIS:LA, and this took around fifteen minutes of my time.

            All in all, today has been a great day, and I’m pretty satisfied overall with the way I managed my time and the amount of work I accomplished.