Time Management

Much of the first year of university is spent learning how to manage your time. It can be tough to balance schoolwork, friends, family and extracurricular activities. I had a good friend who had been a lot of fun to hang out with but things changed so she wasn't fun at all. And actually, as I look back, neither was I.

Our conversations deteriorated, and we became obsessed with only one topic: how much school work we both had, and how there was not enough time to do it.

She would often tell me how she didn’t know where to start with her essays, how she felt overwhelmed with the amount of material to study, and how badly she wanted better grades. Sometimes we shared these feelings but other times she talked about her work so much that it began to stress me out too, and it was definitely a downer for our friendship.

I got to realize that everyone has a lot of work to do, but if you just get it done, there is much more time to do fun things. Having her around taught me that no one likes to hear your complaints all the time, even good friends. We both probably could have benefited from spending more time actually studying and less time talking about it.