This assigned blog was due last week and why am I just writing it now?
No, it's not because I didn't care about it, or that I'm trying to stick it to the man, or some other lame excuse.
In all honesty it was because I simply forgot and the reason it slipped my mind is that it seemed minuscule to all the other things going on in my life. What is one simple, little blog post? More than one would think. It's a way of expressing yourself and the more I get into this its calming and not just a boring assignment.
This past week I had a lot going on. Every day I had to be at a meeting earlier than I would've liked (8:30 AM) in order to have budget meetings. I met with every student group on campus and listened to them tell myself and the rest of SGA's finance committee their proposed budget for next year. I also had a lunch date with a prospective student, an RLC meeting on Wednesday and a fraternity chapter meeting. In addition, I had dance practice every night for AKA's "So You Think You Can Stroll". (We did a fantastic job, but didn't win) Our practices didn't go unnoticed, we just weren't the best ones out there. Finally, the coming weekend was my fraternity's formal in Savannah, Georgia. I was looking forward to it so much and looking forward to getting off of Furman's campus.
What I learned from last week and these coming weeks is I'm too busy and spread out to thin. We learn from our mistakes and fix them. That is why I'm currently reorganizing myself and getting my priorities straightened out.
The experience you describe is no doubt common to most of us. But it is also, I think, a generational thing, and I wonder if there are not some small but noticeable differences between the millennial generation--which includes me on one and you folks on the other--in that this was the first generation to really grow up with the internet a significant part of their formational years. I am always somewhat skeptical of claims that technology is destroying this or that, and that's certainly not what I'm saying. But I do think that in some ways hypertext is the technology that most influences our generation's psychology. we think that we can read it all and have it all, and this influences our way of participating in organizations more broadly. There were always people who were spread too thin, but it's almost a cultural norm among people of a certain age.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, it is an extremely busy time of the year and the small things tend to slip through the cracks at some points. Unfortunately, for me I have been not investing in my friends as much as I should and probably spending a lot more time on my work.
ReplyDeleteI too have been very busy with class -- not as busy as you -- so I definitely followed you on the beginning of this post. When you talked about the significance of a blog post, I was on board too. Usually I don't think much of them going in, but once I get to writing, it just keeps coming. I always think anything that gets to the page will have to be squeezed out, but it usually ends up flowing and I ask if it's too long. It is an eye-opening experience to actually get to talk about something you want to and see what you feel in words. I know that sounds tacky and cliche but I truly believe it with these blogs. I know tonight when I got Dr. Herron's email I had no idea what I was going to write about, but once I started writing I was really enjoying it and getting really fired up about my topic -- The Masters.
ReplyDeleteI guess a testament to all I wrote is this comment since it ended up going on for way longer than I meant for it to.
Unfortunately I'm in the same boat. I feel like I have been pretty much on top of things all semester, and them bam, I'm remembering after writing a paper that I have a presentation due tomorrow that I'm half way done with (if we're being optimistic). Not hypothetical either, I'm off to research the cultural differences between health care in Canda and the United Staes and whether or not a Canadian style system would work in the US!
ReplyDeleteI'm in the same boat, too. What do we say that we have those drafts due this Friday, as I'm behind on another classes' papers?
ReplyDeleteDan, I feel the same way about writing, or really about anything involving language. At first I can't imagine how I will start, but then I can't stop!