What can I reasonably and sanely do in a semester?

(A worksheet for the perpetually overcommitted)

Print this off for your own use. (Please be aware if these numbers will change during the semester.)
1. Number of hours of work per week:            
2. Number of hours spent in commuting per week  
3. Number of hours in which I am the primary caregiver for my young children/other family per week:  
4. Number of hours I plan to sleep per week:  
5. Number of hours spent in church involvement, meals, etc per week:  
6. Estimated number of hours I plan to spend on recreation per week:  

SUBTOTAL A (add lines 1-6)

  
7. Number of hours I am expected to be in my classes per week:

 

  
8. Multiple line 7 by 2 or 3:

(This is the average amount of time you can expect to spend in outside work for your courses.)

  

SUBTOTAL B (add lines 7 and 8)

  
Add Subtotals A and B  
Subtract from 168

(This is the total number of hours in a week)

  

If 10 or less hours remain in your week, you may be overcommitted; if the final total is less than zero, you are seriously overcommitted.

 

"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding