This week has now shown me that my life this quarter will be nowhere near easy. I was shocked at this realization. In my college experience (as a student two quarters away from graduating), I have NEVER felt so overwhelmed. I’m taking an 8:00 am class, I got to work from 10-1 pm every day that I can, I’m planning a music festival, I’m in a psychology lab which is taking an extra 5 hours out of my week, and my last two classes are heavily reading based and project-based. To summarize, I have so much to do and absolutely no time to do it. I may consider dropping my lab because that seems to be the only option.
Anyways, thank you for allowing me to vent about my current situation. Here’s a happy thing in my life. I have a wonderful kitty named Ritz. He really is the reason I get through my stress some days. He will always come to find me when I’m stressing and he’ll meow at me and sit on my chest. He does this super funny thing where he stretches his entire long body from his front paws on my chin to his tail all the way at my knees. It makes me LAUGH so much and releases so much tension in my body. I love him.
Q: What did you love this week? What would you have loved to have achieved this week?
A: I loved my coaching meetings with Drew. He is such a wholesome and hilarious person. Our meetings last forever when you are in this class but we are a good team and are able to assess our team 4 & 5’s work with ease and intent. Honestly, meeting with Drew was so nice because he is a familiar face (we did our E2 project together) and it allowed for me to socialize with someone outside of my house. We really do both care about making sure the VP1 teams got as much help as we could provide thus being another reason we work well as a coaching team.
Q: Please share your personal experiences and the lessons you learned from completing VP1 this quarter? How may they help you have a successful and fulfilling VP2? How will you put that into action?
A: Holy cow did I learn a lot about how to help others direct their purpose and intent for a project as a coach. This really helped me ask myself deep thinking questions about my event. I want to see the weak points not just what is cool about my festival. A lot of the feedback I get is the upfront excitement folks have about the idea but I fail to receive input about people’s fears or dislikes. Drew helped me recognize that I need to use test cards and interviews with truer intent than I have in the past. I really need to gain certain information (needs and fears) from my consumer this quarter.
Q: What challenges are you facing? What’s Next?
A: I think the challenges I face are issues with scheduling. I need to really deep dive into my passions and purpose in the world. I feel at a loss which is so strange and something I haven’t ever experienced before. Seriously… I have always known my direction and feelings about everything. Now I am in a phase of my life (which is common in most psychosocial examinations of human development so I guess it’s natural to feel how I feel) where I am no longer focused on how I individually fit into my social spaces but instead am concerned with how I dynamically fit into the social world. It’s hard to have this whole perspective change. I have a feeling that it will pay especially since I am able to identify what’s happening in a logical way. Maybe what I need is chaos… who knows!