March 25th, 2002 - 9:31 pm
» time
Daily observations: snow sprayed violently up against railing posts, thick and mottled like you’d see on a bad fake tree. Vulnerable teacher tummy.
I had others but they’re gone now. Today I also thought of time, and how little of it I have. There are 120 hours in a five-day school week. I spend 21 of them in class, 4 working, 6 in various club activities, 2 in practice. We’ll round and say I get 7 hours of sleep a night: that’s 35 hours sleeping. Maybe 8 hours eating during the week. After my alarm goes off it takes me 45 minutes, sometimes a bit longer, to get out the door in the morning; we’ll say that’s 4 hours. That brings me up to 80 hours of stuff blocked definitely into every week. Professors generally give two to three hours of homework per hour spent in class; 17 of my classroom hours I’m taking for credit, so being conservative I need 34 hours for homework each week. That’s 114. That leaves 6 hours (SIX HOURS) of spare time. In which to write, to practice guitar, to breathe. Of course I have slightly more cushion: sometimes homework isn’t that long, sometimes it’s longer. I can do homework during my work hours sometimes, and I do it while I eat lunch. There’s the weekend, of course. Nevertheless I’m feeling really awful about my schedule right now.