College.

So how about this college life? I always used to laugh when I would see those bumper stickers that said things like "Sleep. A social life. Good grades. You can only pick two. Welcome to college." But now I see how incredibly true they really are. I'm exhausted all of the time, but I finally have a balance between school and friends/ family. My freshmen year I decided to give up the grades. Sophomore year I had the social life on the back burner. Junior year I leaned towards grades and sleep, but social life got more prevelant, and now... all about the socializing and studying.

The tough thing is, I feel like without some socializing I would go insane. I am doing homework constantly, even while I hang out with my family or my boyfriend. I barely have time to watch tv or get on Facebook (except at work). Even while I'm supposed to be working, though, I often do my homework when we're not too busy. It's insane! They definitely don't train you for this in high school. I hear friend's younger siblings talking about how hard their high school classes are and I literally laugh out loud and say, "wait to see what college is like, then let me know if you think this is hard." And it's not even as much that the work is harder, it's just more intense. All the work (in most classes) is necessary. And when you get a homework assignment or you have a test and you don't study for it, you're basically shooting yourself in the foot.

In high school I never studied, but I always got A's. It was a wonderful thing. I miss it a lot. Especially during weeks like this. In the next 8 days I'll have had to write a four page article for Journalism, a 1500-5000 word essay for Creative Non-Fiction, and study/ take one of only three tests in my cap stone communication class. It's gonna' be rough. And the worst part is, I'm so so sooooo sick of writing. I was absolutely in love with it before. I mean, hell, it's my minor after all. But now I just don't even want to do it anymore. I'm sick of being told what style to write in or what my topic will be. It's not fun anymore. I have three writing classes this semester and that was such a bad idea! It's nice to have the journalism class and the creative non-fiction class at the same time because then I can compare and contrast, but then on top of that I am doing an independent study writing for the website and all three are piling up and making me hate my life a little bit.

I think this is a life lesson, though. It's showing me that I won't have a main career in writing. I can always do some freelance stuff and some writing for fun, but never will I be a novelist or a journalist or a poet or anything. It's just no fun when you have to do it to survive... or in this case, to get good grades.

Anywho, off to tackel some serious homework, peace.