After an agonizing 15 minutes of doing nothing but thinking, I had time to reflect on all the work I could have been doing in those 15 minutes. Maybe deciding to do this after engineering homework and before physics homework wasn’t the best time as I couldn’t truly relax and get into it. However, in 15 minutes I tried to get introspective and reflect on why I couldn’t relax. It may be due to the fact I’m sitting at my desk and can look up and see the sticky notes on the wall with all the tasks and homework I have to  complete. Or it could be that I’m sitting next to the trash can that is starting to overflow and needs to be taken out, but I am trapped in 15 minutes of pure thought, no action.

During the 15 minutes, I found my mind going from one thought to another abruptly and I let it flow and keep going. I went from thinking about this assignment to other homework I had to do to the emails I had to send. All of it started to stress me out because I couldn’t begin to act on any of these things I needed to accomplish. My thoughts were not linear in any way as there were many other things interjected between the thoughts of everything I have to get done but the impending tasks were the main ones in my thoughts over the 15 minutes. I’m glad I made it through the 15 minutes so I can move on to all the other tasks I have to complete for my day.

-Madison Gac