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Work It Out: Balancing a Five-Class Semester
I'm not going to lie to you: my first week with five classes was brutal. Besides my new classes being difficult on their own, auditions for the Freshman Musical were this week, so I had to sit behind a table and take notes on the acting and singing abilities of a constant parade of prospective cast members for four hours every night. Obviously, it's something that has to be done, but it made all of the work I had this week nearly impossible. I didn't manage to get anywhere near a decent amount of sleep, but now it's Friday and I have the whole weekend to catch up on sleep and work (not that I'm looking forward to the latter).
Lately, I find myself more and more into running. I mean, I've run mostly every day since the beginning of last summer, but it was always just a part of my daily routine that I had to get done, no matter how much I detested it. I never understood all of the things people said about working out being a stress reliever or a nice break from work. Most of the time, there were a million things I would rather have been doing, but I know how important it is to stay healthy and in shape, so I did it, even though I hated it.
But recently, running has actually started to become for me the remedy for stress that runners always claim it is. I don't really know what changed, but lately I've been running longer and longer distances and going out on runs more than once a day. I haven't really figured it out yet, so all I can say for sure right now is don't give up if you're having trouble establishing a good workout schedule or you don't like working out as much as other people do. It took me nine months to finally enjoy running for its own sake, but now, I'm addicted.
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