What is more important?

What is more important? Is your family more important than school or work? Is work more important than both school and family? We all strive for the best so that our family is happy. However, it seems that to get the best, we need an education. It is almost a vicious cycle!

At home, children are playing, screaming, hungry and seeking our attention all while writing an essay about an issue that does not directly concerns our life. We pause just for a moment, or it seems like a moment, to tend to our children and realize that two hours has passed. We return to writing the essay, which is due the following day or maybe in an hour, and find that we lost your train of thought. Do we give up? Before answering that question, we hear a loud crash. After investigating the noise we find that the lamp has just seen its last day. Now we put away our papers and prepare dinner.

Sometime in the middle of the night we finally return to our pile of papers and continue writing. After finishing the paper we realize that we may get about four or five hours of sleep. In the morning, we do it all again.

As students and members of a family, we each must juggle an extremely busy schedule. If we do not juggle our schedules efficiently, our grades may drop or a child may be left at practice or the bills may go unpaid. All too often people say that attending a university is comparable to a four-year vacation, but in reality, it is not a vacation. We work hard everyday to maintain our lives. Not only do we attend school and live as part of a family, we also have jobs.

Some of us attend school to become better employees for our company. We are always working toward becoming a better person. We want to be a better family member. We work hard everyday. Are the rewards of earning a degree worth all this hard work?

-Vivian