Why is it that there is never enough time? Not enough time to spend with friends, do classwork, or have fun. I don’t think there has ever been enough time to get the needed amount of sleep.
Let’s examine an average weekend to try and determine where my time goes. I get done with classes on Friday at 1:00 p.m. and so as far as I am concerned that is when the weekend officially begins. Therefore I must apologize to those of you who have classes during the weekend. Indeed, the most disappointing part of my weekend is that I usually spend the first three hours locked in my room studying. I can assure you I never did that in high school.
Needless to say, Friday night is not a major study time. I have yet to sit in my room at midnight and work calculus problems or read about Alexander the Great. Maybe in the future I will find it necessary to spend every waking hour working, but for now Friday nights are reserved for fun.
I won’t bore you with a detailed description of my Saturdays and Sundays because they are carbon copies of Friday. I wake up, do some work, eat, have a bit of fun, and then sleep. The problem is that I seem to spend more time studying than having fun and sleeping. Sometimes it seems that I spend more time on schoolwork than on everything else combined. This disturbs me greatly.
There was a time where I would procrastinate. I waited to start an assignment until it was nearly due. With this method I would have plenty of free time, and a night or two of total torture. However, I don’t do that anymore. I try to plan what I am going to do each night, and follow that agenda. Yet now, even when I am successful at completing everything on schedule, I still don’t have any free time.
I secretly wonder if teachers around the world have a secret plan to make students work extra hard. Tests, papers, and oral reports seem to always be due within 48 hours of each other. I can picture every teacher and professor at WU sitting in Brown 100 while the Chancellor throws a dart at a weekly calendar to determine when everything will be due. This activity is then repeated every week or two. Of course, this is also happening at every university and school across the country.
I originally wrote this opinion about the lack of time to complete schoolwork and still be able to relax. I tried to make the opinion carefree. The fact is there is too little time to complete everything that we need to.
When was the last time that you didn’t call your parents because you were busy, or that you hurried them off the phone because you needed to get some work done? Next time when you think that you’re too busy to call or talk, remember those who no longer have any time in their lives; I’m sure you’ll be able to make the necessary time.