Are Vanderbilt students always busy?
Are Vanderbilt students always busy?
For me, the answer is most definitely yes. This past Thursday night/Friday morning, I wasn’t able to go to bed until 5:30 AM. AM? Yes, AM! I went to bed at 5:30 AM because I was writing a paper for my World War II class about Japanese stereotypes and misconceptions during the war.
I’ll admit it. My time management skills aren’t the best. I should have written this paper during my fall break, but to be fair, I didn’t realize how busy my week would end up being. Even after going to bed at 5:30 AM and waking up at 8:00 AM, I wasn’t able to take a nap because I didn’t have the time! Seriously, this is how my day went…
8:00 AM: I woke up after 2 ½ hours of sleep and made some edits to my essay. Then, I washed up, printed my paper out, and headed to my research lab meeting.
9:00 AM: My lab discussed this review paper on the history of Clathrin, a vesicle coat-protein that is involved in protein trafficking (p.s. expect a blog post about undergraduate research later this semester).
10:00 AM: I handed in my paper in my World War II discussion class, but I was so tired during class that I just sat there and did not participate in our discussion at all. Words pretty much went in one ear and out the other.
11:00 AM: We played charades in Spanish class to help us with some vocabulary.
12:00 PM: I had a break for lunch, but I was supposed to meet up with the president of my fraternity to discuss the budget because I am the treasurer. He cancelled the meeting, so I ended up getting food at Rand and taking it to go because I wanted to eat really quickly and take a quick nap before my next class. Sadly, when I got back to my room, my roommates distracted me and didn’t let me sleep.
1:00 PM: We talked about glycolysis, the first step in metabolism, in biochemistry class!
2:00 PM: I ran a quick experiment at my lab. I also finished a Spanish assignment that was due at midnight while my experiment was running, so I killed two birds with one stone!
4:30 PM: I left my lab and headed to my physical therapy appointment. I got surgery on my labrum in late July, so I’m almost back to normal!
6:30 PM: I got dinner with my roommate at this Thai place called Golden Thai (My rating: 8/10).
8:00 PM: I went to Commodore Quake, a fall concert that takes place in Memorial Gym during Homecoming weekend. Third Eye Blind and The Band Perry performed!
12:00 PM: I didn’t want to go out to a party because I had to do service in the morning, so I just went to bed.
At Vanderbilt, I am very busy; however, I choose to be this busy because this is the way that I like to do college. There are many Vanderbilt students that are busier than me and there are many students that have oodles of free time. The great thing is: there are a bunch of things going on and you can choose to get involved in and go to whatever you want.
Thanks for reading about my life,
-Jeff Yung