With the cobwebs from winter break finally cleared from their minds, college students are starting to feel the pressure of mounting schoolwork setting in once again.
Between reading endless textbook pages and writing weekly papers, it is hard to believe that most students find time to participate in ANY extracurricular activities, let alone enough to impress future employers with a well-rounded resume.
Whether it be responsibilities to a organization or obligations to a fraternity, students somehow find a way to balance these activities while also completing school work in a timely manner.
Because of their demanding schedules, a task as simple as doing laundry is put on the back burner. Mainly because they want to avoid the chore that quickly turns into a two-hour endeavour, students also put off this chore because they simply don't have the time to separate whites when they have a chemistry test the next morning.
When Sophomore Terra Swanson finally did make the commitment to clean a semester's worth of dirty clothes, she was met with a row of dryers that read "out of order."
Dryer woes are not all that plague this UNC student. Like many second years, completing resumes and applying for study abroad programs with upcoming deadlines encroaches on the time she would usually dedicate to studying.
"It is just really overwhelming," said Swanson as she took a brake from her organic chemistry homework.
On top of everything else, Terra had to make the decision of staying home and studying or attending her sorority's cocktail last Friday night.
"And I don't even have a date yet!"
It is actually remarkable that students are able to juggle these hectic schedules while also succeeding academically.
The competition among students are fierce as study abroad and career building opportunities only a select number of the most exceptional applicants.
The recent deadline for the JOMC Spring Break networking trip had journalism students scrambling to perfect resumes and write essays for the opportunity to travel to New York City and meet with successful alumni.
This trip allows student to build relationships with people in the businesses they want to break into and possibly set up future internships with national corporations.
While this trip is an amazing opportunity to jump-start a career, the probability of being selected is much less promising.
With only 12 students getting an acceptance email, it seems imperative that students present the best resume and essay responses that they can in order to somehow stand-out from the hundreds of other applicants who are just as set on going to New York.
This competition, while stressful, acts as a model for what graduates can expect when they begin to enter the workforce and face the selectiveness of future employers.
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