There's nothing I value more than Post-It Notes and colorful pens.

I lied.

There's nothing I value more than coffee. Especially at 8:12 in the morning when I'm filling my travel mug in my usual pre-school rush to make sure I at least have some kind of fuel for the day ahead of me. I'm a junior in college, so I'm at the point where coffee has become a part of my bloodstream and my phone is pre-set for at least 6 different alarms to wake me up in the morning.

College is a different ball-game. In high school, you had almost an infinite number of opportunities to mess up and still get the grade you want. In college, you're so on edge that a single mishap should might as well get you voted off the island. Tests and term papers become your entire life, and the struggle is actually real when you get to the printer at the Library only find out to forgot to add money to your school's account.

My planner has become my best friend in that, in it's color-coded glamor, it'll tell me exactly what I have lined up on a daily basis, whether it's spending the first 10 hours of my day at work or the last two hours of my night at volleyball practice. As organized as it may seem, even my social life is documented within its pages, which, to me, doesn't seem to be healthy whatsoever.

Days are planned so meticulously that you'd think that you wouldn't have time to sneak in a nap for an hour or two. But if there's one thing that I've learned about have 18 hour days at least five times a week, it's the concept of time management. It's not an easy skill to come by, but it'll be helpful once you step out into the adult world.

Between school, work and sports, you have to keep yourself mentally sound. I take bathroom breaks so seriously because it's sometimes the only time I get to take a quick peek at my social media accounts, read and respond to text messages and to just not deal with whatever is on my plate. Even walking between classes or half hour drives between my job and my house have become sacred quiet times for my brain.

But here's the hard truth, "busy bee," if there's going to be one other thing that comes in handy, it's learning that it's okay to take a second to just breathe.