We are all extremely busy in college. I am sure that all of us are dealing with some kind of combination of classes, extracurricular activities, a social life, maybe holding down a job, as well as trying to keep our head above water with all of the homework that we get from our classes. It's a lot for anyone to take on.

Please take this article with a grain of salt. I understand that not everyone is able to avoid working while in school and I applaud those of you who make it all work with your busy schedules.

The one thing that I recently realized is that there is an adjustment period for everything and trying to rush that adjustment period won't end up helping you in the long run. I am a junior and I just started taking 400 level classes. I have 2 400 level and the rest of my courses are 300 level. I am still trying to adjust to the workload because it is so much more than my freshman and sophomore year workload.

I also recently moved into my first apartment and it doesn't totally feel like home yet. There are still some things that I need to get settled before it will start to feel like home but the problem is, I didn't have time to settle in totally because things got too busy. I also decided it would be a great idea to try to get a job while I was still adjusting to everything else.

Needless to say, it was too much to handle. I had to sit down with myself and figure out what I really wanted to do because I knew that I couldn't deal with all of this and still have my anxiety be under control. One of my biggest problems was that I would say yes to too many things without really thinking it through first. That left me completely overwhelmed and somewhere along the way I ended up forgetting what was actually important.

I have seen with myself how easy it is to get burned out and then not feel motivated to do anything productive in your life. This summer I worked as close to full-time as I could, took my Chemistry class at the community college, as well as did an internship. I didn't really relax much that summer.

My advice to any college student no matter what year you are is to put your academics first. At the end of the day, you are there to get your degree not to work a job or take on all of the other responsibilities we choose to have.