That was probably the toughest thing that I had to do as a student here,
and a student leader, because as I mentioned earlier I was the student leader that literally jumped in over my head, didn't look back
and then literally treaded water until I graduated.
To be honest my academics suffered because of my leadership involvement,
but that's where people like Mike Giancola came in a pushed me, and Mindy Sopher, and my fraternity advisor as well,
who was an alum, pushed me that you need to focus on your academics,
and then my college advisor as well, to say, hey, sometimes you need to go to class.
Because, you know, there'd be a meeting and it would be a tuition advisory committee meeting
and it's something that's important but yet at the same time I might have a business class that was during that exact time,
time, so you had to kind of pick and choose, and it was definitely one of my weak points. A lot of times student senate meetings,
before I got involved, went to 3:00 am but still they were going to 1:00 sometimes.
So part of it was planning your schedule, knowing that if you're at a student senate meeting until 1:00 am maybe an 8:00 am class on Thursday after a Wednesday student senate meeting's not the best idea.
Balancing your course load; I think that was another thing I had to figure out,
and that's why most semesters I took twelve hours.
There were some semesters that I audited one class of those twelve hours, and I was considered a full time student but I was only really taking nine hours of class.
So you can definitely see why I was here for the length of time that I was here. Now, working for the university, I've been on campus for the better part of a decade,
starting in 2004 and it's now almost 2012.
But it was a tough time and I'm not going to lie; my academics suffered.
That's, looking back, probably one of the things that I would try and work on harder, is to really focus on my class and set aside time for my class.