Classes. Quizzes. Tests. Sports. Activities. Jobs. Scheduling. Everyday, especially as a college student, it's easy to become overwhelmed by all of the responsibilities ahead of us. We become even more overwhelmed when we think of all the tasks that need to be completed while wanting to have free time to hang out with friends and do other fun things as well. Like many others, when there's so much ahead of me my brain feels like it stops working and I end up getting nothing done at all.

Solutions to this problem include lists and scheduling out each day. This does work, and has helped me out a great deal overall. But does anyone else think that when every hour is scheduled out each day, even when there's time to relax and have free time, it doesn't seem genuine because in the end it's all carved out pieces of time? Like a machine in a way, going through the motions to do each task before it's time to move on to the next chunk of time?

Questions like these continue to make me think and stress me out also. When being overwhelmed about being overwhelmed, the most important thing to do is to just take a step back and calm down. It's important to take some time to let all of the rushing thoughts stop and just take time to yourself. In the midst of assignments, jobs, meetings, and everything else in the day, we're all just trying to live our lives and hopefully make the best out of each day.

Even if it may seem cheesy, one of the most important things is to take time to yourself or with people you trust to do things that make us happy and forget our worries for a while each day.