Thursday Day 5: Energy

Since I live in the dorm rooms, this was a very hard challenge to follow. Unfortunately after looking around I found that most of the lights in the building are regular light bulbs which tend to use a lot of energy. I however, did not use any lights during the morning and afternoon and in the evening when I was no longer in my room I made sure to turn off the lights. I also normally never turn off my computer even when I do not use it, so today I made an effort in reminding myself to turn it off the second I am done using it. Also after making a list of everything in my room using electricity, I found that I do not even use the majority of the items that are plugged in. After realizing that I could eliminate these items I immediately unplugged them which will help to reduce the amount of energy I use. I feel that if I was still living at home this challenge would have been much easier because my all of the light bulbs in my house are already switched to compact fluorescent light bulbs.