No time to loose time

I was neglecting that with how many people and things I’ll be coming back to, I’ll hardly have any free time. I have the impression that ever since I came back to university, I didn’t have time to just stop and waste time.

Everything started a week before the start of first term, when I moved to halls and we started preparing program for Fresher’s, who were supposed to move in in few days. And suddenly everybody wanted to organize first two weeks and being in two club committees seemed to take more energy that I had to give. If I didn’t have at least two events that I can’t miss planned for one evening, I was happy that I can go to bed early and maybe one day, if I’m lucky, I can even get rid of that annoying flu. This madness and battle for Fresher’s attention lasted for two weeks, but if felt like forever. And did I mention that I was also supposed to find judges and well... organize a competition about science communication?

To be honest, despite how excited have I been about the idea of organizing Science Challenge while running in the election, receiving rejections to every invitation I sent to a potential judge I started losing my excitement. This part, that was supposed to be done before I even get back to London, was finally finished only few weeks ago by somebody else. I really appreciated to be a part of a team of people that looked like they know what to do. In two weeks and few days I’ll hopefully know how well we actually did. The launch of Science Challenge will hopefully give me at least slightly more time to rest.

Whit how much time I spent studying outside lectures and labs, I feel like studying physics, which was always my priority, is disappearing somewhere in the background. It’s one of the few things that are only my responsibilities, not responsibility for anyone else’s welfare. Last month seem to completely transform my values, especially when I realized that good grades are something that I can only ever show on a CV. However time spent organizing clubs and societies will benefit other people and it might even look better on the CV high grades.