Sunday, August 15, 2010

Committment

I'm an incredibly involved person. Currently, I am on Ball State University's campus, already moved in. I moved in on the 11th...and classes don't begin until the 23rd. Now...why am I here this early? What am I going to be doing for 12 days? Honestly, those questions were in my head too. But now that I'm here...I'm trying to think why I have time to be writing this instead of doing some random chore!

As a sophomore in college, I am currently an executive member of the Residence Hall Association, a member of the National Residence Hall Honorary, and an Academic Peer Mentor. I am also taking 16 credits this semester, piano lessons, and want to be involved in both my major and my hall. I have several friends here and know some guys I can see becoming romantically involved in. All of these are things I want to keep in my life, and plan to do so. Not to mention getting eight hours of sleep each night. Now the question is: Can I fit all of this into 168 hours a week?

I wrote that before classes started, and I'm currently in the sixth week of school. And I can tell you, I've not been able to keep up with everything. I put in about six hours for RHA and probably 20+ for Academic Peer Mentor. NRHH is only taking one hour a week and then the off hand extra hour here and there. Piano lessons takes up 4.5 hours a week and my major homework is about 12 hours...plus the 16 hours that I'm in class. Not to mention meals and hygienic hours, I'm starting to run short on hours in a week...so what's the first to go: Sleep or friends?

It's really a day by day basis. Chances are I don't get back from doing anything until around 11:00 pm. I'll usually hang out with friends after for maybe threeish hours, and then go to sleep. Depending on the day, that'll give me 6-8 hours of sleep. And then there are days where I'll get done later, not want to socialize, and just go straight to my room to sleep.

It's really a day to day feat, not a week to week thing. Homework changes each day, wants to socialize change, what I have to do for work changes, it all is changing. Of course I'll make plans weeks in advance and it will completely change the way things go for that day. It's a good thing I have an agenda, eh?