Senior year

As this is the last semester before shipping off to the real world, I can’t seem to get a break. You would think that as you’re in the final months before graduation you’ll have late classes that are easy A’s and you have all the time in the world to catch up on much needed sleep and relaxation or just party it out. WRONG! It is actually busier than I thought as I’m involved in three different activities – academics, recreation, and work, which they have their own, set of responsibilities that I have to accommodate my schedule with.

I picked up language again – Japanese, which I haven’t taken for a year and forgot how much time it took to study and do the homeworks because every class quizzes are given and they aren’t easy. If you decide to study one hour before class you will be screwed. This is almost as time consuming when I had many digital art courses that required me to live in the computer lab for weeks just to get my idea down to perfection. It was funny that whenever my friends would ask if I’m free to hang out and I would say that I’m busy, they already know that I’m heading over to the computer lab to work. Plus I’m a research assistant for marketing and the research studies that I assist in are a bit time consuming. Besides my studies, I still help out with the archery club despite stepping down as Treasurer, I continue to go to the meetings and practice at night and not coming back to my room till 10:30pm. There goes a big chunk of time. Finally, my internship changes my focus from school to work, where I do a bit of networking, promotional activities, and organizing events. I sometimes have to bring back my work to my room because I would have trouble thinking an idea and resort to working it on it after work.

With this all said, it doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it. True, all of them suck the energy and time from my life but I wouldn’t be going through all this trouble if I know it will make a difference in how I stand out among other students. Most of these I enjoy because they aren’t repetitive and make me apply other skills I might not use that often. In the end, I don’t regret being this much involved during the last years of being an undergraduate as I would probably use these experiences to tell stories to new friends and co-workers later on in life.