I tend to think that I do my best work under deadline.
This could be my journalistic qualities shining through, my apathetic attitude toward things of great importance or poor time management.
This, of course, varies on the situation or task I am attempting to complete.
Even as I am writing this column, I have 22 minutes to meet my deadline of sending pages.
One would think this would implore me to begin writing my thoughts down earlier right?
Wrong.
The lesson of accomplishing things early and getting them done with time to spare never seems to set in with me.
For the most part schoolwork always ends up getting thrown on the backburner.
This is generally accompanied with the thought, "I'll just do that before class."
Ninety percent of the time these things either never get accomplished or get half way done before rushing off to class--late.
These assignments always leave me reflecting the same thing: I should manage my time better and do things ahead of schedule.
In theory it makes so much sense:
Do things ahead of time.
Don't stress later.
And yet it is a rarity that it actually happens.
It's not an issue of stubbornness.
I completely understand that there are things that should be taken care of in advance.
In reality it's because there are not enough hours in the day to get everything done.
Preaching to the choir?
I was afraid of that.
There must be a solution to this.
I constantly refer to the act of juggling when it comes to my life.
Life takes all the things that constitute my weekly routine and throws them at me furiously.
I will catch them all and begin to juggle them successfully.
However, as more and more items get thrown into my circulation some things must get dropped.
It's inevitable.
This will happen.
There is just no way I can manage to keep all of these things up at the same time.
The obvious thing that falls first are social life.
Understandable.
Where it begins to get bothersome is when things that normally shouldn't have priority do.
This means that school gets dropped for work, some work gets dropped for other work and I end up spending way too many hours inside this freezing office.
Is there a way to juggle all these things successfully without having to drop things that are vital in life?
The beauty and beast of journalism is that each week is different.
No one week is the same.
There is no way to completely prepare for the paper we will release next week.
So it is rare that I can actually begin preparing for work.
The key would seem to be to drop all social aspects of life, begin school work months in advance and sleep after I graduate.
Seems resonable.
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