As we emerge as adults, we learn to live with different stresses in our lives. When I first came to college, it was the stress of adapting to a new environment, making new friends, and living away from home. However, as I am in the thirteenth week since I've arrived, those stresses have calmed down substantially. I have battled the stress of four-o'clock exams, the stress of missing home, and the stress of not being able to sleep because of loud neighbors. But the stresses never stop do they. Nope.

This week we are attacking the stress of registering for classes. For the first semester freshman year, Lehigh put our schedules together for us so we didn't have to deal with getting the classes we wanted at the time we wanted. But now, we are given the challenge of creating our schedules and figuring out what classes to take. While for some people this may be simple because they are given a strict curriculum of what courses they have to take for their major (and often those courses are large lectures), for others - such as me - it is much more complex because I have no freaking clue what I want to do with my life; and once I do figure out what classes I want to take, they are mainly small classes so it is less likely that I will get into them. The trouble with situations like these is that I let a small task such as registering for classes escalate into something larger. I look at all of the classes in the course catalog and tell myself that I am screwed because I have no idea what I want to do with my life, whereas some of my peers have the rest of their college career mapped out for them and then they know what they want to do with the rest of their lives as well. But me. I'm clueless. As this situation approaches me, I have to continually tell myself that it will all be fine. And of course it will all be fine. Just living in the moment of now, it does not seem like life is going to be as simple and carefree as I would like to make it out to be. Sometimes we have to pause life for a second. Take a step back. Look at what we are facing. Evaluate it and absorb it all. And then step back into reality and continue with life. Because at the end of day, everything is going to be fine. And even more than that...everything is going to be wonderful and JUBILANT!