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Essay / I have my hands full between school and work - 553
Are you a full-time student and also work part-time? Do you sometimes feel like your hands are full and you don't get a break? Well, that's exactly what I'm experiencing right now as a freshman in college. I am a full-time student and have a part-time job. I work at least twenty-five hours a week. Sometimes my hands are full of work and homework. With this busy schedule, I realized that it affects me in many ways, such as not getting enough sleep, not being able to concentrate in class, and not completing my homework in the allotted time. The first effect is that I am too tired and sometimes sleepy to be able to concentrate in class. For example, when I work eight hours on Sunday and stay up to finish my homework, I realize that I don't sleep much. I had maybe about four hours. The next morning, Monday, I had my 8 a.m. class and barely made it to class on time. While the professor was lecturing and I was taking notes, the next thing I knew, my professor was waking me up to inform me that the lecture was over. I was so embarrassed...