Time Management
I remember around this time of year last year, I was anxious, nervous and almost had a breakdown. Why may you ask? Well around this time last year, I had received two acceptance letters for jobs working as a Freshman Seminar Peer Mentor and as a Peer for Career. This was hitting me hard because I would be working in the fall at my part-time job as well. The situation was completely surreal since in my first year of college, I had not participated in school. I would go to my classes, work, and go home. It was nice to have a change in my life, an exciting change. There were many expectations on my part that semester but thankfully, I got through it. At the end of the semester, I had received my grades and surprised myself since all that time management did not affect my grades. However, it did affect my sleeping habits. I would sleep approximately 5 to 6 hours daily on a weekday and close to 12 hours on weekends. I blame it on late night web chats and phone calls from my boyfriend but it was my responsibility and duty to say no as well.
Now last semester, I did not teach Freshman Seminar but instead took on a leadership role as an event coordinator for Golden Key International Honour Society. This semester, I have Peers for Careers, Freshman Seminar Peer Mentor, Vice President of Events (of Golden Key), a part-time job and 5 classes (one of which is a major class). I am happy to say that I am excited. This shall be another test. I learned that I could not control every single part of my life and leave things to the last moment; things have to overlap and sometimes let spontaneous things happen.
One can have in college: sleep, good grades, and a social life. In college, one has to choose two things that are most important to them. In my first year of college, I had half of grades, half of a social life, and good sleep. I say half because in my second semester my grades went down and my social life involved not much of anything to be honest. In my second year of college, as I stated before, I did not have sleep but I did have the grades and my social life improved.
This year, I hope to balance everything. I saw this picture and thought it was funny.
On that note, I wish you all a happy Friday!