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So I managed to over extend myself (once again) this semester. This time it wasn't too many classes, it was too many extra activites. I'm working for 3 different departments, acting as a peer mentor for a freshman seminar class, was a House Counsellor (unpaid assistant RA), I'm swimming and trying to get a club off the ground while acting as VP for another club. This all on top of two not so easy classes (modern physics and algorithms). The result has been me stressed out the wazoo with rather little time to work that finds me capable of doing so.
To remedy this I just decided to resign my position as HC. I thought this would reduce my stress level. After all, of all the stuff I'm doing it's the one I enjoy the least. It's the only one that actually requires I stay up late. (Every wednesday I had to stay up till 10:00 to do study break, and I had duty 6 times a month where I had to stay up past midnight.) It takes up a moderate amount of my time. It's also turned out to be the thing where my expectations of it were the furthest from the truth, so I don't entirely feel obligated to stay cause I didn't really know what I was getting into with it.
So I should be feeling better now that I don't have that hanging over my head right? Wrong. Apparently the room I have right now is the 'HC' room. Even though it's the same as every other single in the hallway and not even in a very central position. So I might have to move. Despite the fact there are two other open singles (emergency singles) in my hall plus an upper classman who wants to join ResLife already living in a single in my hallway I might have to move. Whats worse is they can't even tell me if it's a sure thing. Or when it would be. So on top of all this stress I now have to worry about being randomly kicked out of my room at some point. My home is no longer my home. I think my stress is now higher than it was before I left...
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You have your viola right? And you're swimming? Just remember that one crappy semester in high school when you had neither. Not that I'm good at comforting, you know that, but just try to feel good. Most of your activities sound fun. And moving though it would suck for two or three days, if you can just move into one of the open singles, shouldn't make too much of an impact in a bit. If you ever need to chat, you know my sn.
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