The Struggle is Real: Living the 2nd semester struggle

Man, the struggle is real…

We are now two weeks into the new semester. We breezed through syllabus week all too quickly, and now we are onto the real dirt and hard work, assignments are piling on, and we might even have a few quizzes and tests coming up soon. That easy class we thought we signed up for might actually be the most time consuming and difficult class of the semester.

Our phones never stop dinging from the constant emails reminding us of all the responsibilities that we hid away for a month while on vacation, and all the hours we signed up for at our part-time job are starting to feel more like a burden than a reward of hard-earned cash.

And all of that just keeps distracting us from all the new seasons and shows coming to Netflix this year.

This “spring” semester isn’t fooling anyone and it could be considered an oxymoron. Spring means sweet, warm, and life-giving, but the fall is the semester that welcomes us with warmer and sweeter weather. The spring semester typically greets us with ice, snow, and bone-shivering temperatures, and no matter where we look, everything is dead.

Some of us might be returning from vacations where we were able to lounge by the pool while getting a suntan, but now we are forced to pile on layer after layer and slide and skate across the icy sidewalks to and from campus (but shout out to the grounds crew for clearing most of the sidewalks on campus).

Because of the holiday break, we are used to resting, relaxing and eating delicious home-cooked meals, but suddenly we are back to stress, back to attempting to stay awake during lectures, and back to eating, let’s just say, not-so-home-cooked meals.

The New Year’s resolutions to be a better student, to stay healthy, and to remain positive are quickly wearing off, which can be shown by the homework lists getting longer, the candy wrappers pile growing larger, and the angry texting thumbs moving quicker and quicker.

The struggle for sure is real and starting to wear on us already; the responsibilities and the weather are already beginning to bring us down; and we are all riding the struggle bus, but if we take things one day at a time and simply one task at a time, we will get through this struggle.

Man, the struggle is definitely real, but so is chocolate, so life must still be sweet.