Don't leave important things until the last minute.
I will say it one more time, fellow college students:
DON'T LEAVE IMPORTANT THINGS UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE.
I am by no means a procrastinator. I am the Do-The-Project-On-The-Day-It-Was-Assigned kind of person. But this time around, I really dropped the ball. My excuse? A little thing called FINALS WEEK. Tearing out your hair, nursing a large Speedway coffee until 3:30 AM, and mindlessly flipping through flashcards you made with leftover paper scraps and highlighters that are running out of ink. And, of course, hijacking all of your friends' MyMarietta passcodes because you are out of prints and somehow they miraculously have over 200 left.
All of this led to me, crouching by my home printer, late at night the day after finals, watching the ink slide across the page in the printer--a hypnotic, ink-soaked pendulum printing my student ID, flight confirmation, social security number, and bank account information in swift strokes, inch by inch.
I had to mail my information to the Italian Consulate to obtain my Student Visa, and time was running out. And, from what I heard, Italy was quite strict with who they let into their borders.
Don't leave important things until the last minute.
Luckily, I received the Consulate's response today in a USPS envelope. My passport, with a Visa--my long-awaited confirmation that I am for sure going to Italy!
Lots of work for a sticker, when you think about it.
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