Response to Nicole Maher’s “Time Autobiography: The Scarcity of Time in Life”

One part of your autobiography that really stuck out to me was your explanation of how quickly time can pass, as well as our methods of dealing with the dwindling of time. When you referred to your decision to attend the University of Richmond, I couldn’t help but to smile. Immediately I was reminded of the deadlines of the countless essays and applications that were approaching ever so quickly. So much had to be done, yet I always found myself procrastinating or making up excuses to push off the assignments as long as I could. But before I knew it (and I really should’ve known), putting off the assignments was the last thing I should’ve done. The amount of cramming that I went through was, to say the least, stressful beyond belief. I thought that I would’ve had an abundant amount of time to get through these requirements, but my perceptions seemed to have tricked me. Perhaps it isn’t time that has been tricking me, but rather my perceptions of it that have.