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The Problem of Time

So things at Seminary have been getting more hectic and this quarter I have some pretty beefy papers due. But beyond just lots of seminary work, when I survey my life I feel like so much of it is wasted and useless. I am not living in the pattern of the Apostles in devoting myself to prayer and the ministry of the word. So where does my time go? Well I bet its a lot like a tire with a slow leak, a little time here and a little time there and soon all your air is gone and you are driving on you rim. Well thats how I feel. I have little time for the more important things, while it seems like hours of my week are spent on meaningless endeavors.
My problem is that I hate schedules, I heard a pastor, maybe it was Keller, talk about biblical time and I thought it was very deep. He said that in the Bible the event set the length of time needed for completion, where now the time sets the amount of work put into an event. So we say we will have a half our devotional, rather than say that we need to commune with God and make that of first importance.
But with certain things I have to just schedule some time. Things like Hebrew, I need to set an hour a day and just work at it, so I can do better in class.