Surviving the WPMBA Program: Part III
How to Be in School and Still Have a Social Life
This post is the final post in the three-part series on “Surviving the WPMBA Program”. In case you missed the past two, I touched on how to balance work and school and life, and how to keep exercise a part of that equation. The third chapter in this series is devoted to your social life. Or, in many cases, lack of one. If you are in the WPMBA program, you are probably already struggling to keep up with the demands of your job and school. Maybe you travel a lot for work, or maybe you are an exercise fiend (read my last post). Chances are, you are finding it hard to figure out where to fit in your friends and family into that already overloaded equation.
This past weekend, my friends and I hosted our annual EPIC tailgate for the OSU vs. Wisconsin game. It also happened to be Halloween, meaning my friend was hosting his annual Halloween party on Friday night. I also had my first group paper due in Econ on Tuesday. Needless to say, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed. When would I go grocery shopping and make food for the tailgate? When would I catch up on sleep, which I usually reserve the weekend for? When would I find time to edit my group’s paper? And so on and so on.
The thing is, I really believe in making time for your friends and family. It’s easy to push them aside when the going gets rough and you have a million things going on. But, that’s when they are even more important. Friends and family can remind you that there is more to life than work and school. They can make you laugh and get your mind of everything you “have” to do. In the case of the Halloween party and tailgate this past weekend, my friends and family did all of the above.
So how did I find time to fit all of that fun in this past weekend? The answer is the same as it was in Part I of Surviving the WPMBA Program – I made a list! I figured out exactly what I needed to get done, and how to fit it in around all of the fun. Essentially, I made having fun as much of a priority as finishing my paper. And I had a great time – especially at the 12+ hour-long tailgate bonanza on Saturday, which ended in a thrilling Buckeye win! I won’t lie – Sunday was a long day of working on my Econ paper. But it was totally worth it.
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