One Week Back and Overwhelmed

By: Paige Kleinfelder '14


The finely tuned balance of homework, sleep, and friendship has been all mixed up after coming back to EC from break. New times for classes, a vigorous community service schedule, and friends that I hadn’t seen in three weeks all had to fit into my schedule.

So here is the recap of my week:
Monday: Attempt the find my Freshmen Writing class in the library (I had no idea where classroom 1 was). Go to Foundations of Education Class. Take a quick break before heading over to Core class in Carnegie Hall (which I had never before stepped foot in). Spent the rest of the afternoon working on reading assignments and then went to Elmira Little Theater to work on God’s Favorite for my community service.

Tuesday: Went to Drawing I. Fell in love with the class (which is probably good since I am an art major). Ate lunch with friends. Finished reading assignments. Headed over to towers to meet up with friends.

Wednesday: Repeated Monday’s classes. Finished my sketchbook journal for The Brooklyn Art Library. Rushed to the Welcome to Sunnydale club meeting and then went to community service to paint.

Thursday: Drawing class again. We learned about diagrammatic line and shading. The assignment to practice these skills was a single piece of paper with eight well shaded spheres on it. Later that night I attended Pub Trivia with my roommate and two other friends. We didn’t win, in fact we ended completely broke, but it was fun and we did manage to make some interesting drawings on our leftover paper.



Friday: Repeat of classes. Homework. Watched The Social Network over in Meier with my roommate (Pickles) and Sarah before returning to Columbia for a great deal of insane laughter as we attempted to play Just Dance.

Saturday: Community service for four hours. It was really fun. I got to paint French doors and a fireplace (and somehow the bottoms of my jeans). Later Pickles and I went down to Sarah’s room and met up with Mikayla to watch Troy. At some point we decided to have a sleepover, so Pickles and I went down to our room and carried her mattress down the hall. We got a few odd looks, but none compared to our own when we found a fork under the mattress!




Now it is Sunday and I am trying to catch up on some last minute reading before heading out to community service. I think I have finally figured out my new time management for this term. So far it even more fun than last term.