The Balancing Act

Half way through the fourth week of the spring semester and a month into the new year, I already foresee this as the busiest college semester ever. I reference college because the most strenuous scholastic year that I endured in high school was definitely sophomore year. Pre-Calculus homework by Mr. Innes kept me awake until at least 2:00 AM three out of the five days of the school week and the rest of my classes, projects, and tennis definitely beat me into a bloody pulp. Well, maybe I'm exaggerating a tad bit. In retrospect though, I am surprised at how dedicated and diligent I was as a high school sophomore. After that year, I think senioritis kicked into full gear.
But, this Spring '11 semester will definitely kick my ass if I don't prepare myself. With the help of my new iPhone (using the Calendar app) I was able to plan out my January events and have been working on February as well! Something I would have NEVER done before, or maybe tried to do but ultimately would have failed because of laziness. Balancing five classes in a four-day school week, being the Vice-President of the SWER chapter at St. Thomas, gearing up for my last tennis season as a collegiate athlete, and trying to teach tennis on the side to make some bucks undoubtedly will be the death of me if I do not shape up my organization skills. This does not include extra-curricular activities that I would love to do such as running a half-marathon sometime in March, indulging in the yearly visits to the Sony Ericsson Open, partying to house music during Winter Music Conference week or Ultra Music Festival, and participating in the 2011 Freedom Rides at the end of the semester in early May.
This hectic schedule is bound to leave me with some gray hairs, but I would not have it any other way. Yes, of course, I could always look back to last year where my only responsibilities were tennis and schoolwork which left me with plenty of more leisure time, but I think that I am ready to take on these new roles and responsibilities in life.
I feel as if I am doing the right things and tipping the scale of my life in the right direction. There's exactly a week left until we, the STU tennis team, face off against the reigning NCAA II National Champs, Barry University. Even though Barry was too scared to add us to their schedule and is only calling this a scrimmage match, I am waiting anxiously to surprise them just like we did last season. Against Barry, I probably played one of the best matches of my career, upsetting their number one player and escaping with a 10-7 third set tiebreak win. The final score was 3-6, 7-5, (10-7). Barry still beat us in the overall, 7-2, but I savored that win for the next few weeks following the match. This time around, the Barry coach did not schedule us for an official match because "God, forbid, the almighty Buccaneers lose A MATCH against the Bobcats," which is probably what the coach was thinking. I on the other hand will go out there guns blazing and will fight to pull another upset yet again!
How could I forget to mention the Florida Youth Movement Face-to-Face Meeting which culminated just a few days ago, some of you might be asking? Hold on, hold on, I cannot detail the events of such a powerfully informational weekend in just one post or this blog post might as well become the eighth book in the Harry Potter series! So, with that said, I will devote my subsequent post solely to the amazing Face-to-Face event held last weekend where I will spoil everyone with juicy, scrumptious details of the three day event! Just kidding! "What happens at the Face-to-Face, Stays at the Face-to-Face!"...Until it reaches my blog! Until next time, gotta hit the sack right now. My body is calling for it.