{"id":1766,"date":"2015-04-08T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2015-04-06T22:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T02:27:09","slug":"zach-making-extracurriculars-not-extra-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/04\/08\/zach-making-extracurriculars-not-extra-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach: Making Extracurriculars, Not Extra Stress!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is something that separates COM students from students at other schools, they are involved, and they are busy. While the former is a fantastic thing and is what makes BU so freaking special, it results in the second thing. It\u2019s hard. You\u2019ll go to SPLASH at the beginning of first semester and get wildly overwhelmed about all the amazing things you could be doing on campus (at least I did, but I also get overwhelmed about everything). At SPLASH, I signed up for everything and I still get emails from all of them. Like seriously, I need to unsubscribe to the Inner Faith Gospel Choir\u2019s newsletter and I have no idea how. But anyway, I did end up joining a lot of those activities, and now as an almost sophomore (WHAT OMG PLEASE STOP!?!?), I think I\u2019ve figured out a few things to help you manage your extracurricular schedule.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pick one or two groups that are most important to you, and arrange your schedule around them.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

I have done this with Liquid Fun and BU on Broadway, making my nightly rehearsals my conflict for other things. So sometimes I can\u2019t make it to a meeting for another group, but people usually understand because these are groups where you are working towards a product, instead of just meeting to discuss updates on what\u2019s going on in the group. It\u2019s important to not make every group the most important thing to your schedule. It\u2019s great to pick a few things to put above others, but you need time to breathe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Put it all in a planner!\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

I rely on my iCal religiously to make sure I am places on time (even though I\u2019m still never on time\u2026 whoops), and I set alerts before hand. I have different color coded calendars to make sure all things work out. It de-stresses me to look at my calendar and know things have been sorted out a bit. Pro-tip: download the app \u201cFantastical\u201d it makes entering events waaaaay easier.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s okay not to do everything.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

I had to quit a bunch of things that I had intended on doing at first, but once you get in he swing of things you realize how incredibly often things can and will conflict and you have to figure out what is going to be important. At the end of the day extracurriculars are here to make you happy and to enrich your experience at BU, and while we are fortunate enough to have such a vast extracurricular community, you don\u2019t have to do all of it to get the full experience.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is something that separates COM students from students at other schools, they are involved, and they are busy. While the former is a fantastic thing and is what makes BU so freaking special, it results in the second thing. It\u2019s hard. You\u2019ll go to SPLASH at the beginning of first semester and get wildly … Continue reading Zach: Making Extracurriculars, Not Extra Stress!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}