Sunday, January 29, 2012

Doing Everything

I was the opposite of this last week. I tried to do everything, and then got stressed and just slept a lot. I also worked on school work like it was the end of the semester. Sadly, despite the fact of being a second semester senior, I had group project meetings before classes even started.

 
First week in and this is how I feel. Like I'm dying, like the last 0.1 miles of the half. 
I know that people busier than I am find time to do everything and be productive. So I'm going to try to be more efficient and consume lots of coffee. In fact, there's even a t-shirt sold by the chemical engineering society that reads: "Cornellians run on caffeine by day and alcohol by night." Seriously, there are some crazy people here who do more things than I do, and then party like a rock star from Wednesday to Saturday. I am unfortunately not at that level, so I'm going to do everything that I need to do and then train for a marathon.
This is totally going to be me. 
Part of the reason I'm kind of running around everywhere is that I'm not prepared to drop my fun classes yet, like Human Bonding, figure skating, dance technique, and rifles. Yup, I'm taking a rifles course where I am going to shoot M-16s. I'd say that's beasting it. Especially since 50% of the grade is how accurately I can hit the targets.

Last time I really pushed myself, it turned out pretty well. 
So hopefully by the end of this semester, I'd be modern dancing, figure skating, marathon training, M-16 shooting, researching, teaching English, blogging, and hopefully employed after graduating chemical engineer. Wish me luck! 

Tell me, how do you guys do it all? Or how do you guys keep from procrastinating?  



7 comments:

  1. DON'T DROP HUMAN BONDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. Haha. As I recall, you dropped that course. But I actually really don't want to. It's so interesting.

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  2. I want to learn how to shoot guns! That sounds so fun!

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  3. You will get through it! One way that I can now "do it all" is that I decided that one graduate degree was enough! I am still a "graduate student" but I will withdraw from the university soon, so that I can keep running, blogging and working.

    You'll figure it out!

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  4. Kids have forced me to be more efficient. ...

    I want to take the M16 class!!!!

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  5. Mmmm.. where do I sign up for the M16 class?

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    1. Personally, I don't do everything. Not by a long shot. But I kind of really need to up my game this semester to finish up the research, submit the papers and thesis and graduate as electrical engineer. And marathon train. And teach my class. And apply for jobs. Crap! They do sound a lot. Maybe M-16 shooting helps? ;-)

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