Biting Off More Than You Can Chew

Sometimes I'm just like Calvin

Hey everyone,

Today I am learning a very valuable lesson, making an honest assessment and being okay with the fact that "I can't."  Let me back up.  Currently I'm enrolled in 9 separate courses, 6 of which have a ton of outside of class work, cast in a major Main Stage musical, hold two jobs, am fight coordinating and starring in a senior Thesis film.  Now this is not necessarily new for me, in fact I've taken on more in the past, but this is the most classes I've taken with such a substantial amount of outside of class workload.

With all of these classes, I've made a valuable lesson this morning, which is I can't do everything.  Even before the school year has officially kicked off, I'm already ready to have my skull implode, because at least 6 of those things require substantial outside of class work.  That on top of my two jobs, and extra-curricular interests have forced my hand.  I can either be mediocre in all of them, or I can drop one and successfully do the work for the other five.  For the first time in my life I'm swallowing hard and admitting that I can't do it.  In the past I've viewed my admitting of this fact as a weakness, but now I'm happy i'm making the choice.  Just by dropping one of the courses, I'll have an extra 5 or 6 hours a week to distribute among the rest of the major classes, and managing 5 classes is significantly easier than a full six.

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