This post is dedicated to Tuck Admissions Blog followers…who else can I talk with at midnight and be guaranteed they will listen? Thank you for squeezing my ramblings into your busy days…
I have fallen off in my blogging over the last two weeks. I am exhausted!!! No one told me that second year was going to be this busy, hectic, etc. I feel like I have been going non-stop since I got back to Hanover! And what is worse, is all the stamina I built up last year in Fall A is gone. I want to nap, hang out on my couch and generally, I just can’t stay awake to get it done like I did last year.
So what has changed you might ask? Well, lots of things. Let me walk you through my 3 hypotheses for my current state of fatigue.
First, I am now 100% in control of my schedule and I am no longer accountable to a study group. This means I’ve done things like scheduling 6 hours of class in one day, so I don’t have classes the last three days of the week. That is a lot of time in the classroom (but the weekend does start on Wednesday)!!! I also tend to procrastinate. I never realized (until they ended), how much working in a team focused me on getting things done.
Secondly, I am may be a bit over committed. In addition to a class schedule that exceeds requirements and searching for a job, I am in several clubs, including leadership positions, I am working in admissions and I will be a teacher’s assistant for a few classes starting in a few weeks.
Today I didn’t have class and I spent 5 hours on campus not studying! But I can’t complain, because I have such a strong desire to give back to the community and if I don’t step up to lead, I can’t assume someone else will – everyone has something they are passionate about and they are making it happen!
I think the thing taking the most time, is the time I spend with people. Something about being away from my classmates over the summer made them all seem more interesting, special, you name it. I came back realizing, this is it! This crew of folks will be saying goodbye in June 2010. This drives lots of behaviors like impromptu dinners, ladies’ nights, and lunches just to meet someone you didn’t meet last year, but heard is really cool.
And when I am rushed to do something else and I see someone, I stop to talk….I believe its worth lost sleep!
This blog started out as a bit of a complaint and an apology, but I hope you read it as an explanation of my choices, none of which you have heard me call “incorrect”. I am just setting the expectation! First year is rigorous academically but second year is different. Part of second year is about the sacrifices you are willing to make to leave your Tuck legacy and honoring the relationships that are so much a part of Tuck.
I wouldn’t have it any other way!
Read the full article: Second year calibration