A few minutes for me

If I've talked to you recently, you know that this season of my life is pretty insane. I'm constantly amazed at how everything just gets done. In talking with a few other grad students, I realize that I'm taking three classes and have the equivalent of two part-time jobs. No wonder I'm always tired. This weekend, after spending three hours at a youth football game taking video footage for class, I was whining to my sister about this 700 word reflection paper I have due every Monday morning. I know what you're thinking - what's so bad about a 700 word paper? It's all about the content. You see, every week we get about 100 pages of journalism theory to read and analyze. In those 700 words I have to summarize key concepts of 3-4 articles, synthesize the material, then talk about what stood out to me. Oh, did I mention that there's a catch? In order to get an "A" on the paper, I have to apply my reflection to current news coverage and pull in outside material. In 700 words or less. Now do you feel my pain? I won't even mention the fact that before grad school I had little interest in news or politics (and still don't, to a large extent) and couldn't tell the difference between Fox News and MSNBC (and still can't, if you ask my sister). Yet in the midst of this, I'm seen as the student who has it all together, who consistently gets A's on her papers and assignments, and who was just recommended for a special project course under the supervision of a Pulitzer Prize winner. I stand amazed. If God is for me, who can be against me?