An Unstructured Summer
Not having to worry about filling in every hour beginning from the moment I wake up is a luxury I’m relishing this summer. College life has exhausted me in that respect. I don’t miss constantly having to time block for deep work at the library, then walk to the dining halls for my routine meals, and commute back to the library again to continue being productive. It wasn’t even the case that I designed this routine to get stuff done. I actually feared having nothing to do. I feared that the mental space unlocked by a free schedule would give rise to demoralizing realities about my life that I wasn’t equipped to face. ...