Student Life Calculator, continued . . .

A student who has a full-time job and is taking 15 credit hours doesn't get weekends off any more! In the previous calculations, you probably recognized that a person with this kind of schedule only has 3 or 4 hours a day, each day (including Saturday and Sunday) to do anything other than work and study. In effect, that means no time at all!

You probably don't see this until the third or fourth week of a semester, but then it hits you like a brick. Many students can shuffle things around a bit early in the semester, probably putting off some work assigned for classes that isn't due the next class period. And the pacing of the classes in some disciplines is different. If you're taking a couple of classes that are primarily lectures, you can "save time" by not reading the assignments or only reading them quickly. You're actually stealing study time from one class to use it for another.

If you have a home and family, count on them to point out what's slipping! The laundry piles up, the meals become increasingly simple, and the house looks a bit . . . well . . . messy. You spend more and more time with your nose in a book, or at the computer, and the kids begin to look at you strangely!

So what if you want your weekends back? This calculator takes one day out of the week. It isn't necessarily Saturday or Sunday, but it now takes into account that you want one day when you don't have to go to work and you won't study. Of course, you're still working the same number of hours each week, and you're taking the same number of credit hours. But now you have a "day off" to spend with family and friends. Now how much "free time" do you have each day?

Partying has its price! The smaller the number (or the bigger the number if it's red), the further behind you're getting. What's a student to do?

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