The behavior that I tried to change is procrastinating work till late hours. I measured myself for three days, starting Saturday 1/15 to Tuesday 1/17, over intervals of 30 minutes, sometimes with longer intervals of time if I am doing a longer activity.
Even though doing this exercise made me more conscious of not procrastinating work to late hours, I still fell into the habit for 2 out of 3 days. I noticed there are many intertwined factors that lead me to not doing work in the prime hours of early afternoon: fear of missing out from social activities, lack of emergency from overconfidence in my own procrastination skills, prioritizing talking to friends, and reducing sleep time as a way to provide more time for myself to do work… All of these lead to me sleeping late, which results in a late start to the next day, which creates a bad start and initiates the connection circle all again.
Little intervals of time were not utilized well because I always felt like it wasn’t enough time to actually do anything productive. While this can be true that requires long times of concentration, I could’ve did my readings on my phone more while I was waiting in line, sitting around, or scrolling on phone. There was one success in doing this: I completed half of my course reading for another course while waiting in Wilbur’s Pho line.
Fear of missing out felt like a big factor to me because it seemed to me that most of my friends similarly do their work at night. Afternoon or early night is the time for interaction. Late night is the time for lonely grinding. 
There are also a lot of environmental factors that led to me prioritizing other activities instead of work in the early hours. It was the MLK long weekend and the first weekend of the quarter. An overwhelming sense of “I should have fun and enjoy” took over, which isn’t completely bad, looking back, because I did end up enjoying my time in ways that I probably won’t be able to when my schedule becomes busier.
If I get to do this again, I would create a better accountability system. The past few days were spent with this bad habit of procrastination, but the end goal of finishing all the work I have was achieved. There was no bad consequence, and my overconfidence in my procrastination skills might have even grown. Maybe I would get a few friends to refuse to hangout with me if I don’t finish my work beforehand to motivate myself. I would also continue the habit of utilizing small snippets of time to finish readings or other small work.
Measure data:
1/15
11:30am
Woke up. Still in bed. Scrolled through social media and exhausted time limit for the day. (It was partially exhausted by last night before i went to sleep)
12:00pm
Still sleeping
12:30pm
showering
1:00pm
getting ready for heading out. Waiting for friend B
1:30pm
Eating brunch with friend B at stern
2:00pm
On route to computer history museum
2:30pm
In comp history museum
3:00pm – 4:15 pm
Comp history museum
4:30pm
Driving to friend B’s house
5:00pm
In line for dinner at tansuo (chinese bbq). Got seat and started ordering
5:30pm
Still ordering dinner
6:00pm
Eating dinner
6:30pm
Eating dinner
7:00pm
Leaving restaurant
7:30pm
At friend Bs house, eating orange
8pm
Chatting with friend B and his parents
8:30pm
Still chatting with friend B at his parents
9:00pm
About to leave friend B’s house
9:30pm
On route from friend B’s house to burbank
10:00pm
STARTS STUDYING NOW. Doing work. PWR brainstorm
10:30pm
Work
11:00pm
Talk with friend A and friend B
11:30pm
Talk with friend A and friend B
12:00am
Talk with friend A and friend B
12:30am
Talk with friend B alone
1:00am
Talk with friend B alone
1:30am
Was gonna go to sleep but things happened. Talking to friend B
2:00am
Talking to friend A
2:30am
Talking to friend A
3:00am
Back to room. Talking to friend F and friend B
3:30am
Talking to friend F and friend B
4:00am
Goes to sleep
1/16
12:45pm
Wakes up
1:15pm
eating brunch
1:45pm
finishing brunch up
2:10pm
STARTS STUDYING RIGHT NOW. Working on PWR assignment
2:30pm
researching in google scholar
3:00pm
researching still
3:30pm
still researching
4:00pm
researching articles and writing up assignment document
4:20pm
submitted pwr assignments, about to take a nap
5:30pm
woke up from nap
6:00pm
Doing urbanst133 reading
6:15pm
Stopped studying. Went to dinner at wilbur. In line for pho
6:30pm
Got pho
7:00pm
almost finished with pho. Watching anime at the same time of eating pho
7:15pm
Back in dorm. Resuming urbanst133 reading
8:00pm
Doing urbanst 133 reading
8:30pm
Taking a break on phone
9:00pm
finished urbanst133 reading
9:30pm
Break from studying: chilling with katrina and bhu and friend F for a bit. Went to bathroom.
9:45pm
About to start doing sketchnote for cs247b. Sending some emails out first.
10:30pm
Ended up doing PWR reading, which is due tomorrow
11:00pm
About to finish PWR reading
11:30pm
started sketchnote finally
12:00pm
doing sketchnote
12:20am
preparing to go to sleep
12:30am
went to sleep
1/17
8:30am
woke up
9:00am
Eating breakfast
9:30 – 11:20am
PWR 2JJ
11:30 – 1:20pm
URBANST 133
1:30pm
Met up with friend B to get lunch at Olives
2:00pm
Finished lunch at olives
2:30pm
Getting package from package center
3:00pm -4:20pm
Arrived in CS124
4:30-4:50pm
Trying to pump bike
5:00-6:30pm
Napping
7:00pm
About to head to dinner at stern
7:30-8:15pm
Ended up talking to friend T with friend B
9:00pm
Got to Huang to study
9:30pm – 10:45pm
working on and finished sketchnote
11:00pm
writing up measure me 2 assignment
