Managing your time OUTSIDE the classroom?

Managing your time in and out of the classroom is very important for a freshman in college.  It is a total change from when in high school you are in school for seven hours a day and then go home and free to do what you please, but with your parents approval.  In college it is almost the exact opposite.  You see here in college you are only in class for two maybe three hours a day and when you are not in the classroom you are here to hang out with your friends because you are on campus 24/7.  You do not have to ask your parents if you can go to this place or that place and you have the freedom to eat what you want and when you want.  It’s a total change for one person to get used to and because of this change in so little time you have to be able to manage your time with your school life and your personal life.

What I learned in my first week in Inquiry is that in college you are supposed to spend more time out of the classroom then you are in, and not just a little more time. DOUBLE IT.  Now for me, I know that high school was very hard to focus on while it was going on and I never wanted to be in class doing work because my mind was on more important things at the time.  What I was told and from the readings is now I have to use my own personal time to go over homework and things?  What kind of place is this?  I know that I am going to have to work really hard in doing my work outside the classroom because it has always been a problem of mine.  I think it will definitely be better because every day after school in high school and middle school my 3 best friends lived on the same street so instead of me wanting to do homework I would want to hang out with them instead.  I don’t have those close friends here so it might be easier without that temptation.   In my notes I read that you need to attend every class and every outside activity so that I can do my best in the classroom and show the professor I really have a care for my work.  Also not only in the classroom, but outside of it I need to put a lot of effort and time into the outside studying work.  I have always struggled with the outside work from past schools and my challenge for myself is to keep my mind focused on school and do everything I need to do inside and outside the classroom to succeed.  No matter what it takes I will do it.  Who’s with me?