a balancing act...

It has been a long time since I posted anything due to an equation of balance that has been ruling my life this semester:

internship + school = crazy life

I have always worked during school and it has been fine, but an internship is something different. I go to work and think and produce. I think about marketing things and strategy things and real world type things. I then go to school and they try to teach me the things I am learning at my internship already. It gets to be rather redundant but also a little crazy in terms of balancing the limited hours in a day.

I have two very different modes of operation that I am balancing. On Mondays and Wednesdays I wake up early and go to work. I obviously have to dress fairly nicely and be professional. After work I go straight to class to sit amongst students who are basically in their pajamas and still very much in the academic world. I'm bouncing from one world to the other and its a complete mind shift.

During October I went through a period of wanting to quit school and just work. I felt like I was learning so much more at work than school, what was the value of it? Now its December, school is wrapping up, and it has redeemed itself. Final projects are due and I see all the work and time I put into them and that the endurance required was also part of the experience, part of the learning.

So, there is a balance, a rhythm and flow to life. Sometimes I committed more of myself to work in a week, sometimes to school and it that's okay. Life, school, work, and relationships all ebb and flow, in and out. I'm seeking balance in these things.