Student Life Calculator

Nothing's changed. There are still only 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a week!

What has changed is that if you're like many students, you're trying to do it all -- go to school, hold down a job, see your family occasionally, or have a social life -- and you don't know how much time it takes. This little calculator can help you figure out how much you can reasonably do in this annoyingly inflexible world of ours.

Initially, the calculator assumes you are neither going to school nor working. The third box shows how much time you would have each day of the week. After getting 8 hours of sleep each night, you'd have 16 hours each day to do things: eat meals, shower, do the laundry, take care of the children, read, exercise, volunteer, clean the house, shop, walk the dog, go to church, paint your room, wash the car.

Now you've decided to go back to school! Enter the number of credit hours for which you've enrolled in the first box. What happens to that 16 hours? You can change the number -- try 12 credit hours, then 15, then 9. How much time is left to do the other things in your life?

What happens if you also decide to get a job? You find a job with flexible hours that pays well at a call center, or a good restaurant, or at the mall, or in a doctor's office. Enter the number of hours you work each week in the second box. What happens if you work 40 hours a week? 20 hours? How much time is left to do the other things in your life?

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Last updated by Karen Schwalm on August 09, 2007 .  Legal Notice. http://web.gccaz.edu/~kschwalm/English101/calculator.htm Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ