Welcome to Journal Entries. I am your author, Anna Garman. With this column I plan on being able to share how I am feeling and what I am thinking, and hopefully someone else can relate. I have kept a journal for many years now, and I always find it therapeutic to write down my thoughts and feelings. So now, I am taking it public. I hope you enjoy and can relate.

As I write this, we are almost through week 5, and I am just now feeling like I have my footing when it comes to classes and extracurriculars. I do not know why, but the start of this semester felt as if I have not been in college or step foot on this campus. Which was very confusing because I am both a junior and am more involved now than I was last semester. 

When I say I am involved, I mean it. I have a 5-course class load, two jobs, I am the Director of Fundraising and Finance for the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) here on campus, PR Director of The Slate, and I sing in the SU Concert Choir. However, I would not have it any other way. I like being busy because it keeps me occupied and keeps me on a schedule. 

Enjoying what I choose to do with my time makes being busy a lot easier. My extracurriculars are fulfilling in different ways. Being a part of PRSSA and The Slate are for experience in my future career field, and Concert Choir is simply because I like to sing, and it has nothing to do with my major.

I am able to participate in these extracurriculars and do well in my classes because I schedule out my week. I do this in multiple places because I like to visually see what I have to do. The most helpful for me is using GoodNotes on my iPad and writing out my week, and then I export that page into an image and make it my lock screen. After all of this, by no means do I have my life together, and I try to give myself patience and take it day by day.

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