It’s mid-January, and you know what that means for college students…application time. It’s something I learned last year around this time, that every application for every event or organization or job or scholarship or honorary or anything else for that matter has pretty much the same due date, right at the end of January.
I told myself last year that I would do all these applications over winter break, but who was I kidding? Now I have to apply to the Beanie Drake Scholarship again (I was a finalist last year), internships, back-ups for internships, back-ups for those back-ups (basically summer jobs where I could live in Columbus for free, like being an Orientation Leader), and any Honoraries or organizations I might be considering for next year. And don’t even get me starting on living plans, just watching all my friends panic over leases and housing forms is stressful…hopefully I won’t change my mind about keeping my RA job for next year!
And speaking of that, now that I actually am in a position on campus this year, I also have recommendations for other people’s applications to fill out…specifically RA applications.
So pretty much all these applications mean looking into the future about 6 months or more…even though it’s the middle of January. I better get cracking!