Time flies more quickly in college
Do you sometimes feel that time goes by much faster than we realize? Do you sometimes stop for a second and think about dates, years or just minutes that just passed by?
Right now, when I think about how fast the school year goes, I realize that it is already mid-October. Midterms are over, and we are so close to Halloween. Students have already started to design their costumes for the last day of October and some are already thinking about going home for Thanksgiving. Orange decorations are becoming part of the scenery in the dormitories and shirts that adorned almost every student during Dakota Days have been put away for this year.
It may seem as if it is early to prepare for Thanksgiving, but when you see that everything is moving so quickly, you start thinking not only about the four-day break in November, but the three-week holiday in
December.
During this period, have you finished all the things you planned or did you totally lose track of the time and didn’t do all that you wanted and planned out? Just think about the time, one quarter of your school year is already over, just three more to go.
And what about all those things that we left for tomorrow, without realizing that “tomorrow” passed a long time ago. What about when you miss all your due dates for class just because everything goes so fast that you don’t have time for anything. Sometimes I don’t know if it’s just me or if time goes fast for everyone, but nap times are definitely a luxury of the past for me.
Maybe in this moment we should keep ourselves in today’s mood. Let’s think about today’s day and about what great things are there waiting for you right around the corner. Today is a day when we should show our best and not focus on anything more than now. Now is what we need and the only way we can stop time is by just focusing on now. Maybe that is how our days can be longer and we can learn to enjoy our fun college time a little bit more.
When you think again about how time goes fast and how weather changes from a sunny day to a storm and back again, we should all just stop for a moment enjoy every day off, enjoy any free time and allow ourselves to be a little selfish and think only about ourselves and the things that make us happy.
