Balance

So...its the end of the semester. Yeah. Time has not generally been on my side.

The biggest challenges of senior year is to AVOID having periodical panic attacks about the "future," and balancing those planning processes (ie: fellowship applications and networking) with classes...

I tend to be overambitious with my goals--and true to form, in the beginning of the semester I planned on taking 4 classes, having two jobs (one consisting of email submissions of research so totally managable right?), a policy writing competition, senior thesis planning, and a rigorous workout plan (marathon training? yeah right.)

So with only two weeks left of the semester I realize that I STILL haven't learned all there is to know about time management. I am a victim of my active mind--I always have so many ideas going on in there, and tend to overestimate my ability to accomplish tasks in short periods of time...there are so many possibilities and in trying to do everything that comes to mind, you run the risk of completing few tasks.

Damn. I totally thought I had internalized that sophomore year...

So lessons of the day:
-Don't repeat old mistakes--> work towards reversing bad habits.
-PRIORITIZE: no matter how brilliant an idea is it is always best to table it if there are other more pressing things to do...like graduate.

College has taught me that old habits die hard...perhaps I will manage to get this time management thing right in my final semester..yes. yes I will.

Now back to writing this paper...