This blog post is as much advice as it is a reflection on my last semester. While I have had busy class loads in the past, my Fall 2024 semester was the heaviest I have had up to this point.
Over this last semester, with work, classes and a show, I was spending almost every day of the week on campus from 8 AM to 11 PM. On top of this, for the first two months of the semester I was going through the process of buying a home. Being newly married, the free time that I had went to doing homework and hanging out with my wife.
Despite how busy things were for me, I was happy. I was happy because the time that I was spending was going towards things that I loved, and goals that I wanted to achieve. Looking back at the semester, I see everything that I accomplished and I am very content. I was able to stay content throughout the semester because I was doing everything that I could to see those goals, to see that I was actively working towards achieving them. Each long day I finished, I saw that I was closer to achieving something that I had wanted to.
While I don’t think it is healthy to run yourself into the ground, when you are doing what you love it doesn’t feel much like you are running yourself into the ground. Balance is important in everything, but if you are staying in the moment, and doing everything you can to appreciate everything you’ve got as it comes, I feel that you can get through a lot more than you may believe.