Of work and having no time
UPDATE: I’ve decided not to apply for the teaching scheme since it would clash with both my exams and student ambassador job, so that’s one large thing out of the way (it would have been more than 15 days). In its place, I’ve applied for a Google Summer of Code project for my summer holidays to keep me busy. I’m a workaholic, I really am!
As of late, I’ve been completed immersed in my work, both in the form of university coursework and volunteering and extra work that I have been doing.
I know that I have a knack of applying for every single job that comes my way with the intention of getting more experience, gaining some money to pay for my student life and maybe even enjoying the experience.
However, this does mean that I have very little relaxing time these days. In between coursework, I am a student ambassador for the university doing open days once a week, and I’m also helping to redesign the university radio station’s website as well as helping out with Mozilla’s Public Suffix List and participating in this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup.
I am also planning to take part in a university teaching scheme during the summer term, do a two-day long open day and attend the Summer Ball as well as maybe even doing my first year exams and passing them! If that wasn’t enough, I’ve also applied to work as a ticket and guidebook seller during the summer.
As you can see, it’s starting to look pretty packed at the moment. Hopefully, though, this situation will only last for a few more months. I’ve planned ahead for next year, and this time I’ve decided in advance what I’m going to be doing. I’ll be rejecting anything that isn’t on my list in order to keep things under control, unlike what it is now.
The teaching scheme is only for the summer, as is the summer job and the Summer Ball. The Imagine Cup and radio station website will end at the end of this year, which just leaves the student ambassador job (which I want to carry on because I enjoy it) and also the Mozilla Public Suffix List volunteering job (which will become much less of a workload once the scheme is opened). At that time, I’ll be able to concentrate more on my university work as well as other extra-curricular things like my DMOZ editorship and membership of the HTML Working Group at the W3C.
It’s going to get packed again…