Order in chaos

"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."

Lucille Ball

It's a fact that people work much harder under pressure and as the end of this first semester in college comes to an end, I start to fully understand this quotation. As more and more things get out of control, I find myself with much more energy and determination, able to do twice as much as all I felt too tired to do in the beginning of the semester.

It's all a matter of setting yourself to do something, and finding in all the chaos and stress the motivation to run and get things done.

Warmness

Something I just stumbled on and stared at thinking "That was exactly what I needed to hear...":

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Mahatma Gandhi

My latest theory is that everyone needs comforting things or people around, along with challenging stuff. Just to make sure that life doesn't get neither too monotonous nor too cold.

What I'll be listening to this whole month

Why can't I just accept that having my cat bathing on my desk while I'm studying is completely normal?

Slap in the face

Hello!! This has been a quite busy week and today I'm so exausted that I can't do anything other than blogging and sleeping.

College has been even more challenging than I expected it to be. I've never been much of a social person and now I belong to a class of 60 lovely, caring people, not to mention a whole family of hundreds of Biological Engineering students. It's really new to me, but I'm loving it. I really have to dedicate a post to my new relationship with people... but not today, sorry!

On what comes to tests and evaluation, things get a bit worse. I know from the beggining that I should aim as high as possible - and I'm also aware that I am far from perfection. I knew I wouldn't be the best from the first day to the last, but I did not expect things to be THIS bad. I may be overeacting (I don't think so, but it is possible, I admit it), but this first test (Algebra, last Tuesday) made me realize how hard I have to work to get to where I want to be. Just another thing college taught me...

yours,
millou

What about writing a letter to your future self?

If you have never tried this, you really should: http://www.futureme.org/

It's so weird to place your present self before a future self you don't know, and realizing how you expect it to be... You certainly want to be skinnier, to have better marks, to have a nice job, or something else... Will you really be like that?
And what will your future self think of your present self?
Weird... but interesting.

College: first week review

Looking back to who I was a week ago and who I am now, I can only say :O

This first week was something I had never experienced before. My feet sank on disgusting mud, I screamed until my voice was gone and I wore the same t-shirt 5 days in a row. I feel like a man now.

Of course this first week of college was disgusting, unpleasant and tough. But it was also the funniest and the most instructive I've ever had in my life - and I really mean it. In five days I was taught that sometimes priorities change and it no longer matters if you're sweating like a horse; and that nothing is ever too tough for you to do it. As long as you want it, you can always go a little further: scream a little louder, run a little faster or try a little harder. Always.

yours,

millou