<p>Ok so I went through high school, graduated at the top of my class, and am going to a good university. I am relaxing this summer, but now I have to start doing course registration for college. It’s starting to get a little annoying. When the **** do we get to relax in life? I’m likely gonna go to med school, but I’m doing biomedical engineering so I have to coordinate pre-med with it. On top of that, I am into finance so I have to coordinate THAT TOO into my registration. I feel like just giving up and becoming like a history major or something lol</p>
<p>lol…med school…ermm…NEVER. Jk, well, maybe, just maybe, you could pull it off and relax when you’re 75 years old.</p>
<p>think about what you really want in life
if you really want to enjoy life
and make relaxation and balance one of your priorities
plan your career accordingly =)
nobody says you <em>have</em> to be a stellar student and go to med school</p>
<p>that being said, you really should take some time to relax before you’re retired, or else you might get burnt out, which would pretty much kill your performance and probably make you terribly unhappy</p>
<p>I agree with fizix. You need to be able to make time for relaxation. Besides, it’s good for your health. Free time will NEVER magically appear and if you keep putting it off, it will never come. Plan like one day a week or every other week where you JUST spend time with your friends doing something fun and plan your week accordingly. It doesn’t even have to be a full day, but it would be to your great benefit.</p>
<p>Good luck!! Remember that you only have this one life to live. Think about 50 years from now, what you would regret doing and not doing. Odds are you would regret missing out on great friends and fun in your youth with your hectic schedule. Work to avoid those regrets =].</p>
<p>We’re bascially in the boat. I’m also doing BME and premed. What I plan on doing is maybe sometimes having fun like taking a day off and just having fun. </p>
<p>You can make plans for some days or the weekends. You can never completely be relaxed until retirement, but soon it can become boring. Now it’s summer vacation and I haven’t been doing that much and I don’t really plan on much.</p>
<p>it’s called: “Retirement”…</p>
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<p>you’re welcome</p>
<p>^ erm lol is that supposed to be relaxing?</p>
<p>have you ever played this epic game? It’s relaxation through invigoration.</p>
<p>When do I relax?</p>
<p>Every weekend during the summer (I have to work and volunteer).</p>
<p>Yearly cruise during spring break.</p>
<p>When I get the job that pays 6 digits so I can work 4 days out of the week.</p>
<p>When I get tenure at a prestigious university.</p>
<p>Before that it’s stress through high school to get into college, stress through collee to get into grad school, stress through grad. school because a grad student knows nothing but stress, stress during my post doc when I’m barely making enough money to survive and praying to God that I can get an actual job after my post doc is over and then stress during my job while trying to juggle teaching and research to get tenure.</p>
<p>Then I can worry about having a family, friends, and a life. But hopefully it will be worth it.</p>
<p>“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.”</p>
<p>–Bertrand Russel</p>
<p>I hope you won’t have children, because being a parent seems like it would be a pretty stressful job to have. So yes, you’ll probably only get a reprieve when you retire and you have grown, independent kids. (That is, assuming you saved for retirement. Otherwise that’ll be a stressful mess too.)</p>
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<p>And then you’ll be traveling all the time and presenting your research and writing proposals to bring in funding. It’s hard work staying on top of your field. You’ve got to publish publish publish if you want to keep up your reputation. And chances are, once you’re tenured you’re not going to stop caring and you’ll be working like a dog well into your 50s.</p>
<p>Life as a professor is hard. Trust me, my dad is one.</p>
<p>…But if you teach at a non-prestigious university where professors don’t do research and just come into class twice a week it’s a lot more relaxing.</p>
<p>Summer is very, very, very, very, very long. As is winter break. you’re doing Bioengineering dude. the amount of relaxation is inversely proportional to the amount of math you do.</p>
<p>In death…</p>
<p>Death? That’s too long to relax.</p>
<p>Once your net worth reaches 7 digits, start to relax unless you’re in debt.</p>
<p>God… life sucks haha.</p>
<p>Relax any time you want to. You don’t always have to work so hard. If you don’t enjoy it, don’t do it.</p>
<p>Hm, I might be a bit ignorant, because I’m a rising soph and in my freshman year I did literally nothing in terms of academics, seldom hw and stuff, so I was constantly relaxing on games (like 5~6 hours daily) and etc.</p>
<p>@piccolojunior: That game kicks major ass.</p>
<p>If you actually work too hard and don’t even think about relaxing, you can be a candidate for sudden death. One of my close friends’ dad was an amazing man, but he didn’t know how to relax like my dad(both incredible workaholics) and he died suddenly =/ Now his daughter is shipped off to Canada while her mom is working overseas, so if you relax for yourself, there are more unforeseen benefits than just being mentally sane.</p>