Dear potential readers,
Do not skip dinner and then make up for it by eating a Qdoba burrito in a minute.
It’s amazing how only two extracurricular activities have managed to take up so much of my time, but since I’ve arrived at Harvard, I believe I’ve done something for either band or glee club every single day, and today I managed to have both which entailed a total of five hours of commitment (to be fair to the band, their commitment was a little over two hours, and I only attended one of them so that I could spend more time with the glee club). I’m looking forward to Tuesday, my first day with nothing. It’s funny how different extracurriculars are in college than from high school. In high school, you (I’m assuming “you” is a similar person to me who was motivated and wanted to impress college admissions officers) racked up as many activities as possible so you could add an extra sheen to your resume, and most of these activities didn’t mean anything. Hell, I had band, choir, knowledge bowl, cross country, swim team, NHS, and probably something else, and by Harvard standards I would have been an underachiever. Here, every organization knows you’re motivated and capable; otherwise you wouldn’t be there. So they expect you to give everything you can, and actually treat you like an adult a little bit, which is both good and bad, depending on how much you depend upon the security blanket protecting you from the real world. In any case, two years ago I wouldn’t have expected two organizations to be able to take up so much of my time and energy. (I suppose the same could be said about classes as well, but I’m not thinking about those yet.)
Isn’t that a cute kitty/dog/Japanese animal?