Life Put To The Test

I often wonder if I’m going the right direction in my life. This semester so far seems to be a great test to my abilities. I have so far had to prove to myself that I’m a good leader and organizer. What I didn’t think would be a test was my scheduling. I know most people go through this all the time. Having two things going simultaneously and you just don’t know which is the most important thing at the time. This semester has put me through some loops in my scheduling. I mean maybe things wouldn’t be so crazy if I weren’t active on campus, but then things also wouldn’t be as great.

                The biggest test to my scheduling has been for juggling all of the activities and things that I sign up for or really want to do. Sometimes, I don’t know how I can stay awake let alone actually accomplish things on a day-to-day basis. I currently hold down 5 jobs and those seem to keep me very busy. I am usually really good at managing that schedule around my class schedule. So far I haven’t had to miss any classes or any of my work shifts because of other jobs. Now, I have those jobs, I have 5 classes which so far I feel I am doing pretty well in overall, and I’m really working hard on getting through this semester and maintaining my GPA. Those two things have eaten up a lot of my personal time, and I sometimes wonder why I do them? But then I think about it, and I realize that I absolutely love all of them and I can’t imagine what I would do without them. But, alas, I can’t stand not being active on my campus. Sure my jobs are all campus jobs and my classes are on campus, but I feel to really enjoy the whole experience of college you should try and join a club that interests you. For me, there are 4 clubs that I really am active in. I hold positions on all 4 clubs and through those clubs I have found many different avenues to experience new things.

                If having 5 jobs, 5 classes, and 4 clubs just wasn’t enough, I found a way to make sure that I got the full experience of a crazy college student and I got active on a bunch of committees. Some are just on this campus but others are throughout all 13 colleges. Most recently I got a position on an inclusion committee that is for all of the 2-year campuses in the state. I am currently on 5 committees on campus and I am loving the different experiences those committees are teaching me.

                For me college isn’t just about going to classes, I want to make sure that I know that when I leave I can get myself a job that I will love. And I know that through the many leadership and learning experiences I will be able to get my dream job. So far, things have been hectic, but I’ve got to say, I’m loving every minute of it. So, if scheduling is my big test for this semester, I think I can tackle it head on.

People Face Tradeoffs

Economics. Now there’s a word I do not like. Sure, for my major I have to get fairly acquainted with micro economics, but the overall concept of economics has never really been my thing. I’m more of a social person than a numbers person-not that I’m saying people can’t be both; I’m just not one of those people. Currently I am in Micro Economics, and just simply trying to keep up. The very first thing I learned on the first day, however, has completely made sense to me. And because of that, has stuck in my head and is often what I think of regularly. Now, what is that concept that has been with me? It’s the first principle of economics: People Face Tradeoffs. Now what the heck does that mean? Ha, funny you should say that, it’s exactly what I thought when I had heard it my first time, it means that people often have to choose between two things and decide which on is what they want, making the “tradeoff” to not get the other thing.

Now there are tons of things that this is involved in, and unfortunately for my brain, I come upon tradeoffs every single day-as I’m sure most of you do as well- such as today, I yet again went swimming, now I chose to go swimming instead of doing laundry. I made the trade to have fun at Blue Harbor, instead of washing my clothes. This sadly means that I now have to do laundry tonight because I am such a professional procrastinator. Now, in this category there are so many different categories it’s crazy! I’m just going to get to the point that I also keep thinking about lately instead of bore you with all the miniscule little details I have to memorize.

The other concept that has been stuck in my head is that as my professor would say “there is no free lunch.” Funny concept, I know, but it’s actually one hundred percent true! This concept, in as basic terms as I can get, means that everything you get for “free” someone else has to eventually pay for. Such as free lunches at clubs on campus, those lunches actually come out of the clubs funding and are used as a recruitment tool. Another example are Scholarships, ya’ know, those things that are awarded to people because of their outstanding abilities in school. Well those are given to people so that they can pay for school for free, but are actually being paid off by someone else.

I find this fact interesting; the reason being is because well I get a lot of free things. Being a college student I often take things for free just because they’re free, I never really thought of someone else having to buy them in the long run, and that is what makes me curious as to why people give things out? I mean, I will never complain about getting things for free, but as a business why would you give things out for free? Is it really that much of a recruitment thing or interest buzzer that you find it necessary to do it? I love the idea, but that’s from the consumer level, I would think at a business level you would want to sell things cheaper than giving them out for free. That’s my opinion at least, if you think it’s a good idea for businesses to do it, feel free to tell me. ‘Cause from my prospective, it seems like a poor strategy, buy one get one half off is way more enticing in my opinion.

Inspiration of Nothingness

Have you ever been totally uninspired? Like, you’ve tried to look at new things, experience new energies and try to find a new view on life, but come up totally blank? I am having one of those moments now. I have tried for the last 5 hours to think of something I that truly feel inspired to write about. I’ve gone through (in my head of course), rants at my latest aggravations and frustrations, what my favorite food is and why, and even what I would consider to be the best television show on T.V. So where has this gotten me? Absolutely nowhere. It has brought me to the biggest case of writers block imaginable.

                This brings me to what I will write about- weird how that works isn’t it? I am going to write about how I-personally- try to cure my writers block. First, I eat ice cream, because what’s more inspiring than ice cream, today my choice was coffee ice cream with Kit-Kat bars ( if you haven’t tried it, go to Cold Stone now). It was delicious, and yet it left me totally un-inspired, so I decided to find a different solution. I decided to watch T.V., now how can that POSSIBLY be a solution? Well I tell ya, it definitely makes you think about something outside your head and throws you into- maybe- a good plot line, or at least something that interests you. But still that did absolutely nothing for me tonight.

                This led me to my next solution, which was, of course, reading the newspaper (online because, I was not spending $.75 on advertisements for shopping trips that I never plan to do. That was my closest shot to inspiration, and yet, still only left me with maybe 20 words to write about before I was bored of my own story. So At 11:43 I’ve officially given up on the hopes of being inspired. But I hope that maybe some of my methods could work for you, hopefully better for you than they did for me tonight. Typically they work magnificently, but I guess tonight is just one of those nights, and I have just given up hope.

                All in all, I hope everyone’s Sunday night has been just as they’ve expected or wanted it to go, for me it’s been pretty good, I haven’t watched the Packer game but I have no doubt that most of you have and I hope you had a blast doing so! Good night, and maybe inspiration will hit next time!

Anyone Can Be A Dreamer....

I am thoroughly in love with my dreams. The ones that I think of in class when one of my professor is being particularly boring, the ones that I have set up as goals, and the ones that I think of when I’m sleeping. All of my dreams mean something to me, and this is particularly crazy since only 5% of them I really remember and those are either the ones that are my goals, or the ones that I day-dream.

                I find it particularly bizarre that I can’t ever remember my night dreams! I really truly wish I could, especially because often times in psychological studies they show problems being solved that way. I’D LOVE MY PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED IN MY DREAMS! I don’t know about anyone else, but if psychology is true, and a lot of our dreams consist of unsolved problems or something that is bothering us, I’d really prefer to know what my brain thinks I should do when I am dreaming. How wonderful would life be if every night I would go to e and dream about all the problems I came across during the day? If I were to have a problem at work, I could go home, literally sleep on it, and have the problem be solved. I would be one of the best employees and would feel accomplished every day I go to sleep and I would wake up.

                People would no longer waste time sleeping because their dreams would be solving the problems of the day, and this would solve so many issues people would have all the time in the world to work out their issues. Can’t you just imagine, a world where people purposefully went to sleep early to solve their problems, instead of staying up late to study for exams, people would go to bed early and solve their problems with-in an 8-10 hour period. Going to be early would become so common others would never make fun of you for going to bed early. And you would always be praised for how sleeping has made you smarter, better, easy-going, calmer, leaner. Sleeping would the newest craze, the best way to do things. A new weight loss program would surround it, and it would become something on everyone’s mind. But alas, we live in a society where we have to suck out every single second of the day and work the milliseconds in before wasting our time sleeping. Boy what life could be if we could only sleep.