As I sat in my small dorm room trying to examine my thoughts and cut out the outside world, I realized this was something that was difficult for me to do. I was anxiously sitting and tempted to pick up my phone to see what my friends had been doing after I just left them a few moments before. I love being with people and it is a very rare sight to see me quiet. I tried my hardest to focus and eventually I had been able to.

 As I sat there, so many different things ran through my mind and gave me all these different emotions. I thought about the past weekend and how stressed out I had been. My days had begun as early as 6am and I would not get back to my dorm room till 9 PM, which had been a struggle for me as I love to sleep in on the weekends and relax. I sat there on my bed and thinking about the pain I felt in my feet, that had been absolutely destroyed from the new shoes I had been wearing and running around all weekend in. I started to get worried about the next weekend coming up and what I would do. “Should I wear different shoes?” “What color shoes would look cute with this teal shirt?” “Should I just wear the same ones because of my insane fear of superstitions?”. I realized I had been severely overthinking it. As I continued to think about the worries I had about the whole recruitment process, I also began to think about the fun I had and the positive possibilities that could happen in a short time. My worries slightly disappeared, but not fully. 

Another topic that popped into my head was my phone usage this past weekend. I had not been on my phone really at all and any moment I got with my phone I took full advantage. That is something I realized I should not find the need to do. I can get so caught up looking at the small screen and I need to see the world around me more often.

  • Katie Fallon