Biting off too much
This semester, I've taken on six ballet classes a week, six academic classes, an internship, and I decided to start doing Bikram yoga.
I would not recommend this sort of schedule. It's not quite as mentally exhausting as the semester when I took on Advanced French Grammar, Intermediate Arabic, and Beginning Russian, but it's still tiring.
However, all of the stress is compounded by the fact that I am a second semester senior, fast approaching the "real world" and all of the "real world" questions from everyone who learns that I am graduating. They light up when I tell them my major, and say that they bet I'm looking forward to law school.
Hm. No.
Of course, that means that I have to explain my whole spiel about how I arrived on campus this past year to total apathy regarding international affairs and how ballet really was the only thing keeping me happy, and how I realized that if I wanted to dance, I needed to do it as soon as possible.
I'm essentially preparing for three careers right now.
I am still working on the security/international affairs option, because I've invested time, effort, and money into it and it's not totally boring. The internship is prepping me for that.
The second of course is ballet (and I probably should have put it first on the list). Preparing for that is the best part of everything going on right now in my life, but the schedule means 6 ballet classes a week, two modern classes, yoga, Pilates, and gym sessions. It's all exhilarating and fun and I adore it.
And then the third is me learning about baking/opening a business which would come after a ballet career (?) because I also adore baking and I've grown up around small businesses (my dad ran one), and it seems like a feasible option.
I would not recommend this sort of schedule. It's not quite as mentally exhausting as the semester when I took on Advanced French Grammar, Intermediate Arabic, and Beginning Russian, but it's still tiring.
However, all of the stress is compounded by the fact that I am a second semester senior, fast approaching the "real world" and all of the "real world" questions from everyone who learns that I am graduating. They light up when I tell them my major, and say that they bet I'm looking forward to law school.
Hm. No.
Of course, that means that I have to explain my whole spiel about how I arrived on campus this past year to total apathy regarding international affairs and how ballet really was the only thing keeping me happy, and how I realized that if I wanted to dance, I needed to do it as soon as possible.
I'm essentially preparing for three careers right now.
I am still working on the security/international affairs option, because I've invested time, effort, and money into it and it's not totally boring. The internship is prepping me for that.
The second of course is ballet (and I probably should have put it first on the list). Preparing for that is the best part of everything going on right now in my life, but the schedule means 6 ballet classes a week, two modern classes, yoga, Pilates, and gym sessions. It's all exhilarating and fun and I adore it.
And then the third is me learning about baking/opening a business which would come after a ballet career (?) because I also adore baking and I've grown up around small businesses (my dad ran one), and it seems like a feasible option.
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