I had been monitoring my media consumption for a week (21th- 28th of September) and I put the results in a chart below:
   It turns out, as I expected, that I spent most of my time in reading newspapers- in print or online (Evening Standard, The Guardian), magazines (Cosmopolitan, Writing, ES Magazine), excerpts from books (Media, Culture and Society by Paul Hodkinson, Why study the media? by Roger Silverstone) during my everyday travel from home to university and vice versa – 36 hours.
   Some other 24 hours were spent by me watching TV at home after a hectic and yet exciting day in university (BBC, Sky News). In order for me to get a rest from the journalism world, I decided to post on social media and see how my friends’ day on Instagram was, and this took me 28 hours of my priceless time and a lot of my iPhone battery (after making this monitoring on consumption I am thinking of reducing the time spent on social media a bit) . Last, but not least, my radio consumption (BBC Radio 4) was 7 hours only.
   The conclusion to be drawn from the above, is the fact that I tried to balance my active hours between keeping up with the news and getting in touch with friends, colleagues and relatives. The one thing I would like to correct is the time I spend on social media, so that I could have free hours for some extracurricular activities.