The Strength to Continue On

With the craziest part of the semester underway, I have decided to step away from my usual type of blog post to give myself and hopefully all of you some hope and strength to carry on to the end of this semester. Sometimes I find myself doubting that there will be an end to all of the madness of everyday life. My mom always says that college is like drinking from a firehouse. Although, it is a very odd simile to say the least, it has started to take on new shape and new meaning as the days go on. College is a completely different experience. We have thousands of assignments thrown at us, essays to write, problems to practice, lab reports to complete and thanks to my bad luck (I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue) they always seem to be due on the same day. Then on top of all of that as if we weren't stressed already there are exams every week. I can honestly say that there are weeks were I feel as though I am treading in all of the work I have to do, with my head barely above it all of course. But the thing is, in the moment it is so hard to forget that these little details are not really what's important. What's important is the fact that we are here to learn. We are here to create a database of knowledge in order to go on to do bigger and better things. The truth is, that B on the test you got last week is not the end all be all. We have to begin to take college on not as a competition to earn the highest grade, but a competition with ourselves to work the hardest that we can and learn as much as we can from this amazing experience. Not everyone has this opportunity, and I don't say that to make you or myself crazy, but it's important to keep in mind. Knowledge is the most powerful weapon, we just need to learn how to acquire it. Just remember, knowledge is not measured by your GPA, its measure by the effort that you put into it.