Ever end the day with a migraine the size of Kentucky and although you know it won't help your situation any you just feel like slamming your head up against the wall? I'm sure you have. Like the vast majority of Cape Cod Community College students, I am a non-traditional student. Trying to balance an enormous work load, a family and a social life (if you can call it that), is a daunting task that seems more cut out for a wedding planner or at least a more compulsive person who wastes no hours of their day watching The Young and Restless. Ah, but I tragically am not.
I am the woman that brushes past you with a bag twice as big as she is, and if you are ever on campus late at night, the one who also manages to juggle the six month old and the three year old as I rush off to the Mainsheet. Beyond being the overachieving student, and the caffeinated mess of woman who is always on the go, I like to fancy myself as a voice at the Mainsheet.
I'm often approached when someone finds out that I am 23 and have two children, attend school full time as well as intern at a local magazine. The question is always the same. How do I do it? Sometimes I respond, with the typical sleep deprivation and that coffee carries me through. Other times I simply shrug and say, 'I just figure it out as I go.' I have to say now that I was once told that I have this thing that makes me do it. Some have hope, some have inspiration or determination, my sister says that I have "stick-to-it-ivness." That is the ability to look down that road and say, yep there's potholes, there is a plethora of hills, and only God knows how many detours, but I will make it. It doesn't take any more than that. I remember that. I sip my coffee, I rub my temples vigorously with both hands, I huff and puff as much as it takes and then I go do.
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