So this week we have been inundated with meetings for extracurriculars. First, it began with the activities fair where all of the student groups on campus put up booths in the Quad and force you to sign up for their mailing lists by means of enticing you with pizza, candy, rootbeer, and the like. Then, your e-mail box becomes full of reminders for meetings and you have to read through 10s of e-mails to find the clubs you actually wanted to join rather than the ones you just signed up for because they asked you if you, "want to help kids with cancer?" which no human being with a conscience can say, "no," to. Then once you've actually chosen which meetings you want to go to, you have to figure out what order you want to do them in because, consequently, they are all at the exact same time. Literally. But once this is done, you feel accomplished, yet overwhelmed because you have finally remembered that you are not going to school to join clubs, but to learn and then you wish you could just concentrate (fancy Harvard lingo for "major") in extracurricular activities so that you wouldn't have to make any sacrifices.
And then on top of all of the club meetings you must go to, you also have to begin preparation for all the (TOO MANY) auditions you are going to go to. As a freshman, you want to maximize your probabilty of actually making one of the prestigious a cappellas or getting into one of the casts of the plays or musicals. So you audition for all of them. Every single one. In the end, you hope that one of them works out, but considering you have not yet chosen any audition songs, you figure you shouldn't count your chickens before they hatch.
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