Stress Management

We make college out to be so great. We get these attractive brochures in the mail, see films like "Animal House," go study abroad for a year and spend all our time traveling Europe, talk about the collective responsibility of connecting faith with learning, all that jazz. These are the best years of our lives, right?

False.

Not when you have major papers due in 2 classes, applications for law school to send out, 3 ensembles to practice for, a spring recital to think about, J-term and spring classes to register for, the accompanying scheduling conflicts to deal with, trying to get home from Brazil to be the best man at your friend's wedding, and a 25+ page paper due in t-minus 20 days.

Yes, welcome to senior year at Luther College, where the motto is "Make Aaron pay for all that time he spent cavorting around London last year when he should have been doing something tangibly productive." It's like the world wants me to fail or something. But I will fight it. Fight! Fight to the death!

I thought it was stressful to study and take the LSAT. Well, it is. But it's also stressful to apply to law school. Especially since on paper, I do not seem qualified. I have a quite good GPA, the study abroad thing, and not a whole lot else. My LSAT didn't go nearly as well as I had hoped. It's not like it will keep me out of every law school in the country, but it's a hindrance, especially to the places I really want to go. Let's just say it's a shitty situation, I'm not happy with it at all. I didn't want to go to law school until this summer, so I have no relevant job experience. My job experience is selling drugs at a Walgreens. My extracurricular activities are playing trombone. Not exactly law school material. It's stressful, nuff' said. I'll be glad to get it all sent in, and will be really glad to hear that I got in somewhere. I just need some stability.

At least I can take solace in the fact that everyone is unbelievably stressed right now. Goes with the territory, I suppose. But I'll be a better person for it, right? Hopefully. Hopefully I can slack off all of January and spring. Not really, but at least not be so swamped all the time. But hey, no LSAT, no senior paper, it'll be nice.

Damn this post was rambling. But I just had to get it out there. It's Halloween. Happy Halloween.