College is stressful, crazy, fun, exciting but also busy. With school, work, and a social life sometimes it seems like you never catch a break. I am the queen of putting too many things on my plate, I just really love stressing myself out. My thought process is that college is for trying new things and half the time I don’t realize how much work each thing I add on is. However, I have always been the type of person that has to constantly be doing something. I wish I could be the person that lays in bed all day napping and watching Netflix, but I can’t.
So I’m here to say, to the busy bees like me who find it almost impossible to find time for themselves: it's important. Sometimes I feel like I might explode, I have so much stuff to do, but even just taking an hour out of your day to do absolutely nothing will help you more than just rushing through everything. Taking some time to go to the gym, read, hang out with friends or take a nap...let's be honest we could all use a little more sleep.
To help with stress, do not procrastinate. Please, please, please just do things ahead of time. I thought I was extremely good at this, but I am one of the worst procrastinators I know. I manage to have a planner, calendar, multiple todo lists, but I still manage to miss the little details. Procrastination truly makes things that much worse. One minute you’re out with friends then you realize you have a reading quiz due at midnight, not fun. Set reminders, use your planner and any other possible organizational tool.
Ultimately, it is okay to take a step back or drop some commitments. This semester I was feeling extra ambitious, I signed up for what felt like a million things; work, an additional internship, greek life and of course I still probably should make time to hang out with my friends and sleep. But who really needs sleep!
After I filled out my planner, I realized that all the commitments I signed up for were just too much and I needed to drop one or cut down my hours and that is okay. It is 100000 percent okay to not want to spread yourself too thin. In my opinion, it is better to give 100 percent in one thing than it is to only give 25 percent in four things.
