Kaili Boyd

Not that I expected this to be easy, but the semester was quite a bit more arduous than I thought.
I learned loads in class, despite the fact that I had one of the most difficult craft professors on this campus, which may have not been the best way for me to learn what I needed.

But the biggest thing I learned is that I threw all of my best time management skills completely out the window when I started graduate school. All of the things that got me threw a 60 hour week professionally, like my dependence on organizing my life through outlook, went buy, buy the minute I got to campus.

I have learned that I need to stop compartmentalizing my professional life from my academic life and see them as one in the same. This is a professional degree program after all.

I’ve also learned that I need to have more things to do, like work, and internships and volunteering. Somehow, in addition to throwing the best tools I had to manage my time out the window, I also had more time to do classwork and seemed to procrastinate more.

So next semester, here I come, day planner in hand, entourage at my fingertips, with in internship and some volunteering work. And if I’m lucky, a couple of bartending gigs!