Wow! The end of my first semester at OSU is rearing its ugly head. Halloween is a couple days away and we are being sent home in less than a month. But being here, on my own, has taught me that I need to force myself to be motivated in order to get work done. It is that time of year, for me, where I have zero motivation to get anything done. All I want to do is sleep all day, not attend classes, and not do homework. It has been a bit of a struggle. I have to force myself out of bed for my early morning classes and I usually end up finding ways to procrastinate on all of my assignments because I just do not feel like doing them. I think I am in desperate need for the holidays to come around. But regardless, I go to my classes and manage to get all of my assignments in on time.
As a way to destress from my lack of motivation, one of my suitemates and I have come up with a plan to workout daily. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays we do cardio and abs. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we lift. Now, when we initially started this, I fully expected it to end in a week; however, it’s been a couple of weeks and we are still working out daily. I find this to be an accomplishment because we get lazy and we knew that we would stop. So, we made a deal that even if one of us are tired and do not feel like going, the other would drag them along so they get their workout in. This has been very efficient because when one does not want to work out, the other does so we balance each other out.
Last week, during our ENR lecture, we played a jeopardy game where we learned many interesting facts. One of the questions was how to survive an elevator falling and I had thought the answer was to jump when it reached the bottom; however, it turns out the way to survive that is by lying flat on your back. We also learned how to survive a blizzard if you are stranded in your car, how to help someone when they have fallen and their bone is now outside of their body, how to identify hypothermia, and how to help someone if they cannot breathe. I have no clue if I will ever need to use these skills, but now that I know them, if such a crisis ever arises, I will know what do to.
I think a very important skill to have is to know how to react when there is a crisis. Since the beginning of the school year, there have been a few occasions when we have woken up to the smell of gas in our building. We have had to evacuate a couple of times. Due to this, I have learned that I am pretty good in a crisis. I keep a calm head and I quickly and efficiently grabbed all the essentials. After figuring this out about myself, I thought about my past and how in every crisis situation, I have always reacted well. For some reason, my head clears and I know exactly what to do to get everyone out safe.