The things keeping me sane are the things killing my GPA.

I like television.

I like poetry.

I like dogs.

I also like not having a 2.0.

The top three things and the bottom thing do NOT go together in my life.

There's this god-awful formula you discover when you go to college:

1 hour of Netflix - work = 3 nights - sleep + (work x 5,000,000)

I love algebra, but that kind of math just doesn't do it for me.

I like getting more than 5 hours of sleep.

I like not feeling like a zombie every day.

I like that I'm not addicted to coffee (yet).

Do you think any of those get you a 4.0?

If you said yes you are wrong and either a genius or still in high school.

Dartmouth is a hell hole with some shiny spots few and far between; I've said that before.

The grading scale is not one of those spots.

I've been trying to allot time to watch iZombie and Outlander for the past 2 years. It has not happened. My time is always spent on homework, study guides, lab reports, blah, blah, blah, and blah.

I'm currently taking 4 classes and involved in 3 extracurricular activities.

I'm always busy. I'm always tired.

If I wanted to be less tired or less busy, I guess I could cut my extracurriculars.

But then I would go insane.

I would be doing nothing but studying. And whining. And writing articles about how much I hate Dartmouth and want to go home.

I'm doing all those things anyway, so I might as well have some fun while I stress myself out, y'know?