My large goals for the year are pretty simple: have a good year on SLT and graduate. However, there are lots of little things and goals that go into making those two things happen, and most of that relies on myself. I hope that this year I can be a good role model not only to everyone on the team and in Student Life, but also around campus. Spending my summer telling incoming freshmen that it's cool to go to school sporting events and to make sure they maintain healthy study, exercise, and eating habits makes me want to do so as well, but it's not always that easy.
I want HLD to have a great year in which we reached out to campus, strengthened ourselves, and found the energy that got HLD where it is today. That takes a lot of convincing and we'll need to create a lot of buy-in. However, it is a great task that I am entirely up to. I love HLD and hope that energy becomes contagious!
Life-wise, I just want to have fun doing everything that I do. Things aren't always going to be fun--they're going to be a pain in my butt sometimes. However, I think it's healthy to find fun in every situation, and my hope is that I can do that. I also want to not live at the office 24/7. Literally. I love the office, but I don't pay rent there. However, Sara and I have a b-e-a-u-tiful apartment 90 seconds away that I hope to take advantage of and hope to be able to do work there as well as rest and eat normal food and not Ragsdale and the Huddle (though I do love both).
School-wise, I just want to do well. I love my classes, and sometimes the ones I don't do as well in are still the ones that I have learned a lot from. I've gotten all my hard requirements out of the way and literally just have Capstone as my only hard class this year. Hopefully my careful planning of classes will pay off--I wanted it to be this way! I want to study both on and off campus, and not just on. I think my workload will be manageable, I just have to make sure I pay attention to my work!
Erica's Fears:
My biggest fear is letting other people down. I don't mind letting myself down every once in awhile as long as a learn from it and move on. However, when I let other people down, it is the biggest disappointment to myself and is really hard for me to get over. That being said, I, like the rest of us, struggle to maintain balance between what I do for other people and what I do for myself. Hopefully, with so many people on the team in this same boat, we can motivate each other and help each other out to make sure we all have balance. I plan to face my bad habits and fears head on this year and hope to help everyone do the same.
Off to New York at 5 am!
Have a great week!
Erica
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