Busy Busy Busy

When referring to school, January and February are the worst two months of the year. There are no breaks when the two built in snow days are already used up. Everyone seems to fall into this “slump” that’s hard to get out of.

It starts with the attentiveness of most students. It begins to falter as the month rolls on. There’s no motivation. Not strive to get to that next break to hang out with friends 24/7 and just have fun. Amongst all of this, there is still work to be done. It seems teachers feel the students suffering from lack of fun and staring at something other than the inside of a school for two months isn’t enough. The load of work seems to increase within these months. This is also the busiest time for me. I’m involved in Happiness and the show choir season has just begun, therefore, almost every one of my Saturdays is taken by competitions. Therefore, there is no time in my Friday and Saturday schedule to do anything but sleep and compete. This makes it extremely tough to get the massive amounts of homework done over the weekend that is assigned.

That’s only my weekend. While have a job and participating in extracurricular activities, one doesn’t have much free time to begin with. Then after the load of homework that is dumped in our laps is added into the equation, I’m left with slim to none. This means many late nights after all my activities to rush and get homework done. Most of the time I leave some of the easier things to do in a class the day of and hope we don’t have a pop quiz or activity where I can’t sneak in some time to get it done.

When adding my weekends to my weekdays, I have no time for anyone besides people in show choir. The only spare time I have to hang out and have fun are the mind numbing hours we need to find random things to do in the hallways of a strange school. This can be entertaining sometimes, but it gets old pretty quickly. All I ask for is some consideration through these long two months when it comes to school work. Is that too much to ask?

I’m not in any way trying to blame all my time management problems on others. I know it’s my choice to be in show choir and work and do everything I do, but it would make life a little easier if school work could stay within the 8 hours I already give to it.