The 40-Year-Old Student

Recently I was reading the Times Union and came across an obituary on Fred Campbell. To me and many listeners of PYX-106 he was more commonly known as Coach. He covered the sports for the morning radio show. He was a fan of the local sport teams and covered the national sport teams as a fan loves the game.

Every morning, he would offer up a sports trivia question. One morning I was fortunate to get through the busy signal and correctly identify that Fred “Chicken” Stanley as the starting shortstop on the 1977 World Series Champion New York Yankee team. I don’t remember what I won, but I do remember how amazed he was that I had remembered the player’s name and that I was only eight-years-old when those games were played.

The second week of classes is coming to a close and I am quickly learning that the word of the day is: ORGANIZATION. It amazes me with a load of fulltime classes and trying to balance coursework, homework and family life, that I have not learned this word earlier.

I thought I was a well organized person before I came here. Now that I am here, I find that need to better organize what I do during my day and wonder how to fit everything neatly into a 24 hour day. I have taken the time to look and say to myself that I need to do this and I can do this. But I never look at myself and said, “Now do this”.

It all comes down to schedule and how we progress through the day. How much time for this and how much time for that? And I still have to be ready for those curveballs I know that are coming my way- I just don’t know when they are coming.