Prioritizing

I'm currently taking 5 classes which makes up15 credits; all 5 of these classes are for my major - public relations/journalism - and 4 of the 5 classes are writing intensive courses. On top of this I am the President of The Inter-Greek Council, the PR Director of a major club at our school, on Student Senate, a sister of Phi Sigma Sigma and a dj for our school radio station. So for me, there is no alternative to a fairly rigorous and unyielding prioritization regime.

There are days when I have to prepare for three tests, and I also have a paper due. Then two days before, we have a quiz sprung onto us in another class. Of course, part of the answer is to have had the paper already written the previous month, and half the test-prep done over the weekend. But last month was completely spoken for, and so was last weekend. Major overload is bound to occur.

Here's a typical example: I was pressed for time and had to make the decision of which test to study for. I had important tests in mass communication and in math. I chose to study for mass comm because it is a class for my major, and math is not. If I had studied for both tests, it would have been too hard to retain the information and I would have gotten a bad grade for both classes. So I had to choose which to focus on.

This kind of thing happens a lot. As a college student, you must make the choice of what is most important. Accept that something has to give, decide what it is, and be ruthless. Do what you decided to do, ignore what you decided not to do, and move on.