<p>You have to remember that these numbers sound high because a lot of these activities only take place in certain seasons, for a set amount of weeks, etc. My hours were over 40 hrs/week, but I definitely wasn't doing 40 hours every week. You have to take averages- some clubs meet only every other week, so you calculate an average per week, some clubs have short regular meetings, but then have day-long competition- again you take the average. I also have one activity that is 18hrs/wk in the spring and another that is about 18 hrs/week in the fall, so I wouldn't add those to 32 hrs/wk.</p>
<p>Yeah.... like one of my ECs is mission team and we build houses in 3rd world countries and such.... during the week I normally only work like 1-2 hrs on it and sometimes skip weeks, but when we travel that's a straight 16 hours a day I'm spending on it, so I averaged it out to 5hrs/week. </p>
<p>... that really threw my weekly hours over the top, but it's obviously not something I'm doing consistently every week, yet I'm still being honest about average hours/weeks I spend on it..... really makes this whole thing rather confusing....</p>