Phenomenon

When we just got into college, we are not used to the new life. For most of us, time management becomes very difficult. We cannot balance our life and study very well which leads to bad consequences like "Freshman 15", which is putting on 15 pounds of weight in the freshman year. And not only for newcomers, almost everyone are facing time management problems everyday. Shall we go to the party or stay at home and finish our homework? Are we planning our work ahead or leaving them at the last moment?All these decisions affect us not only in short term like meeting deadlines but also long term like our health conditions. 

Why meaningful

Personally, I did a very bad job in time management in Freshmen year. I always procrastinated and tried to finish the assignment the night before the deadline, which leads to anxiety and lack of sleep. Also, I did not spend enough time in exercising and actually achieved the "Freshmen 15". Therefore, I am very concerned about time management and my life pattern, I started to record the things I do everyday and find out the reason why I put on weight, why I did a poor job in finishing the assignment and why I felt stressful all the time. I changed my life pattern and I become more organized and live much happier than before. So I believe it is very important to reflect on our life pattern to find out the reasons of our problems in order to make better decision to improve our life. A notable anthropologist called Paul Krassner defined happiness as to have little separation as possible between work and play. Do we balance our life properly? Are we feeling happy or tired everyday? These all has to do with our life pattern. It influences how we are going to optimize for our happiness and success.

Design

The following graph is an official statistics from Bureau of Labor Statistics. It shows that the average work time for an adult is roughly 8.8 hrs. And it is not hard to see, sleeping, working and other each takes about 1/3 of a day.