We can't do it all; there is no doubt about it. So why is it that I think each week will be different than the one before? For the most part, I have the same week: Consistently pulling all nighters, rushing to do homework, scrambling to study for exams, going to mandatory events and trying to do something I enjoy from time to time. Oh, and how did I forget to mention the weekly anxiety attacks and mood swings. Oh joy.

While focusing on the bigger picture, I have to also keep in contact with my family and friends back home to let them know, "I am OK." I have to find a job so I have income, stay healthy and eat well so I can live long. I am expected to figure out what makes me happy and make a job out of it. Try to be social, make friends and find that special someone while trying not to explode mentally. To top it all off, somewhere in between all of that, I need to eat and sleep and laugh — which are three of the best things in life (but they seem hard to attain).

Many college students are feeling or have felt similarly to how I feel.

Yes, I am involved, and I do enjoy it or I would not be giving so much of my time, effort and resources. Although, there comes a time when you have to take a step back and realize that your everyday life has become unpleasant, exhausting and a burden; you start to deter mentally. It puts things into some perspective of what is truly important to you and what it is all worth. I resort to the same thinking cycle that usually gets me in the same place as I was before.

I have a couple options: Continue and keep lying to myself, eliminate the negativity that swarms me and still possibly be confused as to what I want or leave it all and start in a new place where who knows what will happen. I choose to continue. Why? I couldn't tell you. Keeping busy is what I am good at. I want to do the best in everything I put myself in, and I have high expectations for myself.

Thanks to college, I have learned that failing is normal (something not taught to me when I was younger), being patient and slowing down will help you in the long run, time management is everything, there are good people out there who want to see you succeed, it's OK to lower your expectations or you will be let down every day and there is probably someone feeling the same way as you right now.

Yes, I am being a hypocrite right now because I cannot practice what I preach and I acknowledge that. It is something I plan to work on while I am in college. But for right now, I am slowly killing myself.

Well, on to the rest of the week.