Journal Entry #13

2 & 3.

Quadrant 1

Read (2 hours)

Do homework (all day with breaks in between)

Babysitting (2 hours)

Quadrant 2

Study for Public Affairs (4 hours with breaks)

Study for Anthropology (4 hours with breaks)

Have a family member test me on the quality of my studying (1 hour)

Quadrant 3

Facetime with my best friend (1 hour)

Phone call with my best friend (1 hour)

Quadrant 4

Text (throughout the day)

Play phone games (30 minutes)

Watched TV (3 hours)

Go on Snapchat (30 minutes)

Go on Instagram (30 minutes)

Went to the movies (2 hours)

Went out to eat dinner (2 hours)

After analyzing my time I realized that I balance the urgent and important with the not urgent and not important. The activities in Quadrant 2 only apply for this week due to midterms. Therefore, I spend most of my time in Quadrants 1 & 4. The fact that the hours of quadrant 1 and 4 could add up to a whole day potentially makes me realize that these are the 2 Quadrants I take the time to consider throughout the day. If I continue to use my time this way, I feel I could reach my goals and dreams. I never want to be consumed by work and school to the point where I lose out on my fun of what life could bring me. In fact, I don’t feel it is the right time to take purposeful actions such as towards my career at this point. I have to feel I can manage my time with school and jump starting internships and jobs towards my career and even clubs before I can take purposeful actions. But, at the time I am at now I feel the best thing to do would be to focus on how much time I would need to have to greatly apply effort in school and then broaden myself with the opportunities Baruch has to offer.

Freshman Seminar