From logging my media usage on Thursday and Saturday I surprisingly found that I used media less on the weekend day versus the weekday. It was probably the circumstances of the week’s events that made it so because I would have expected my media use to be much higher on the weekend rather than on the weekday.
This past Thursday I was using media pretty much constantly. During the week I tend to spend most of my time alone, especially in between classes, so walking to and from classes I am always using my phone to listen to music or look at social media. Once I get to class though I will put my phone away; however, I then pull out my laptop to take notes. In class I am reading from the professor’s projector screen and simultaneously typing up notes in Word. On Thursdays I have MIST where we learn how to master Excel so I have to use my laptop for the class anyway. After MIST I listened to music again on my way back to my dorm just to go watch a quick episode on Netflix before my next class in another hour. The other class I had on Thursday was my History of Rock n Roll class where I also use my laptop to take notes while simultaneously looking at the projector screen where the notes are displayed. In this class we listen to examples of the music genres we learn about so I was still using media nonstop. After class ended I went to have lunch by myself, but I also preoccupied myself by studying for a bio test, looking at notes on eLC while eating. For the rest of the day I was studying for tests I had. My geography test was Friday so from 8pm to almost 2am my friend and I were in the MLC studying, constantly looking at our laptops to refer to and edit the Google Doc of the study guide we created while writing notes on a whiteboard. Everything I needed to study for the day I needed to use my laptop so I couldn’t get away from media usage.
On Saturday one of my best friends visited me from KSU, and we were able to have some quality bonding time. She came in the evening around 6, so before her arrival I was studying bio at the MLC for 4 hours because I knew I wouldn’t be studying later since I had to host. With her I found myself actually using media less than Thursday because we could talk in person and catch up with each other. Nothing on our phones seemed to be interesting us more than each other’s company. For a good 2 or 3 hours we just sat in my dorm just talking and catching up with some friends she hadn’t seen in a while that also go to UGA. We had a nice night in and watched a movie on Netflix like we always used to do.
It surprised me that I used media way more on a weekday than on a weekend day, but I think that happened because of the timing of events. Having 2 tests to study for definitely made me use media more while having my best friend to host got me to put the media down and enjoy her company without the technology, at least for a little bit.