Stress

These last couple of weeks have been overwhelmingly stressful and I just can't stop thinking about everything that is going on and all the things that I have to do. It might seem like I don't have that many responsibilities, from the outside looking in but I think in general it is so hard to be a college student.
Because of the recession, it doesn't make it any easier to be living away from your family or to ask your family for money. Money is a huge issue for most people in college because you are paying for everything on your own when you either don't make money or make very little of it.
Of course the real cause of my stress is school work. It seems like everytime I look in my planner the work keeps growing and the days of the week start coming to an end.
Stress is a wierd thing to think about because you know that in the end, everything will get done and when it does, you wonder why you were even stressing in the first place. The best thing I can do when I have so much work, bills, and places to go, is to write everything down. This way I will know exactly what needs to be taken care of that week and I can use my time management skills more sufficiently

ghost stories

Yesterday I was sitting in my room doing my homework and my roomate came in laughing hysterically. She said that something wierd had happened in the room that she was just in upstairs the night before. She started telling me that her friend told her a story of how when she was in the room by herself she heard knocking coming from the other side of the wall but oddly enough there was no other room on the other side of the wall. Then she told another story of how the day before that, she herself was in the bathroom alone and she could hear noises and footsteps coming from the stall next to her and then water dripping. She said that she knows of all the ghosts in other building in Cortland but she had never heard of anything about our building.
Because I'm taking this CPN class and have been more open to debunking myths and legends along with being skeptic, her story made me think more in depth if she actually believed it and if something like this could actually happen. My roomate got into detail of all the ghost stories in Cortland and all of them seemed like they were made up and just got passed on from one year to another because they were interesting. If I didn't read all of the stories that have debunked myths and made them seem like it was impossible for it to ever happen, I would have probably believed her story and been amazed, just like everyone else that she'll tell these stories too.