Free Time Reflection

My previous year of schooling was spent at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I was a freshman who was taking her first few steps towards independence. And the reason I chose Calvin was because it was a small, Christian school with a Japanese program. During orientation at Calvin I had felt that I had definitely made the right choice on which college to attend because everything during that time seemed to be focused on God. Yet, as time went on, I realized that while the college campus’ population as awhole was somewhat centered around God, it was not as strongly focused on God. There is a chance that it could be that it was just my various circles of friends, but I tended to find more non-Christians than Christians at the school. And …show more content…
Procrastination had tended to be a large portion of my days there, and my choices were not always the best or correct ones to make. Recently, I have come to realize that how you spend your “free time” often reflects your true priorities in life. And if that “free time” is spent poorly, then one tends to develop bad habits, especially with regards to time management. The opposite is also true however, if one spends their “free time” wisely then good tendencies start to form. Professor Davis seems to agree in his book, In All Things Christ Preeminent, when he says, “…Students spend lots of time on things other than required classes and college-organized group activities. The way students spend the rest of their time shapes their habits of heart and mind…” (78). This Summer, I have begun to get rid of some of the things that I procrastinated with my last school year, such as Facebook and games on my phone that had I previously invested a great deal of time in. By cutting out these distractions, it is my great hope that my sophomore year of college will be more focused on God and on