There are simply not enough hours in the day, especially when you’re a college student.
The days of the week are spent balancing classes, jobs, homework, friends and (somewhere in there) eating and sleeping.
It’s important to find balance, but trying to cram all of that into a single day is difficult. Giving each activity the attention it deserves is next to impossible.
Something has to be sacrificed, but cutting back on one necessary activity can affect the others. For example, in order to keep grades up and have a social life students can give up sleep. But that just leaves them grouchy and dozing off during class. Maintaining a social life and still getting enough sleep means grades suffer, which leads to stress and worry about the future. And making the grade while getting a recommended amount of sleep means sacrificing precious time with other human beings. It’s the domino effect.
Now there are people out there who can do all of these things and do them well. They keep up their grades while having a social life, working two jobs, getting plenty of sleep and squeezing in time to just be awesome. Props to them. Way to master the art of time management.
It’s during those late nights and sleepy mornings when the realization sets in: the teachers in kindergarten had it right.
Nap time wasn’t a punishment, it was a reward. Sometimes getting a time-0ut was necessary to keep you (and everyone else) from going insane. And field trips made would-be ordinary days extra special.
It’s time to revert back to the days of kindergarten, when life seemed simpler. Time for each specific activity was carved out of the day. Snack time, nap time, recess, music, reading and learning all fit into the hours spent in a typical kindergartener’s day.
The teachers were preparing their students, teaching them that it is possible to accomplish a lot in a single day, or even in a few hours. It’s still possible, even with the busy life of a college student. It’s all about mastering time management.
There are still lessons to be learned from kindergarten. Achieve as much as possible with the available time, and don’t hesitate to squeeze a field trip into that busy schedule.
Nap time and field trips are the two things that unfortunately didn’t make it into the college curriculum.
