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By Kathryna Hoyman<\/a> · Managing Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Go to college, it will teach you time management skills!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, for some of us, it will blow time management out of the water. At college, time becomes the holy grail. It’s as if we pay for four years of learning and then spend those years racing against the clock to do all, learn all and become all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the stopwatch clicks, the race ends and we return to walking. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or maybe not, as every single alumnus I’ve talked to has said. Statements like “Oh, undergrad was nothing! Wait for your graduate program!” and “Once I had kids, I couldn’t believe I claimed I was tired in college!” chip away at the idea that college is the one sprint amidst the stroll of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps life is instead a marathon, as alluded to in the first verse of Hebrews 12, and college is a critical time to learn our pace and settle into the run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like a pacemaker running alongside a distance runner to keep them at the proper speed, we have professors, mentors, advisors and peers helping us learn the proper paces for our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this analogy follows, we should not see the pace we set in college as a one-and-done effort, but rather as an increasingly sustainable rhythm. That is not to say every habit must be perfected: The notorious college all-nighters, odd eating routines and sporadic activities (like fish funerals \u2013 I had one this weekend) may mostly be confined to the unique habitat of undergraduate education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in general, much of how we structure our lives at college will be reflected throughout our lives in all other circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are we prioritizing with our time? Is that how we want to prioritize our lives, or would we change our micro-actions if we saw how they will play out in the long run?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a great wonder in the humanity that each person loses when they enter New York City. Suddenly, kindness becomes dangerous: the cripple struggling up the subway stairs is a threat, looking another person in the eyes is provocative and a smile to a passing stranger seems odd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes I worry we do the same thing here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deeply hurting friend is a distraction, the life-giving activity seems indulgent and truly learning material becomes inefficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In college, time becomes our master, whose honor we are bound to defend by denying each demand upon it. This includes demands, which, in the grand scheme of life, we would consider paramount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of these four years, we’ll walk that platform, and among our greatest or most devastating lessons that will follow us out will be our relationship with time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do we fear time? Do we idolize it? Do we try to possess it? The answer to these questions is, of course, individual, but especially in college, time can both seem like our strongest enemy and our most revered advocate. The more we learn how to take it seriously while not fearing it, the smoother the race, not only of our college careers, but of our whole lives will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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