A question was posed by a fellow FLUX blogger.

No, you are not alone. Not in the least.

Staying organized is an intensely difficult process. Throw in the incredible amount of distractions available to us, and it is doubly so. Attach an inherent inability to focus on one thing at a time, and it is triply so. I won't discuss the more clinical aspects of what makes it difficult to stay on top of things. I'll save that for the upcoming edition of FLUX. On the other hand, I will relate my experience in organizing during this, my first real opportunity at writing for the media (no, not this blog post; that would constitute my fourth opportunity).

I am not an organized person. I am not particularly attentive, either. Sprinkled amongst the countless forays in the "real world," I can recall several horror stories detailing the repercussions of my inability to keep it together:

Suspensions from basketball games (my first love).

Being called an idiot by a professor (no love lost).

The multiple "withdrawals" on my college transcript (nothing to love here anyway).

Only the causes were worse than the effects (in no particular order: overzealous ambition, neglecting Blackboard for a week and refueling an automobile). Suffice to say that I would be an alum and speaker at the ground-breaking ceremony for the School of Hard Knocks (and perhaps, this). In moving forward with FLUX, the same challenges that presented me with an empty gas tank and a rapidly-approaching school day have appeared in the form of sparing interview prospects and a 24-hour deadline. The lesson: It ain't gonna be easy, folks.

The catch: I'm not here out of some fleeting attempt to find a niche, and I wouldn't assume anyone else is, either. If I've learned anything in the past 22, almost 23 years, it's that sometimes I have to ignore the little voice that whispers, "this is stupid, you're smart enough you shouldn't need to do this, just forget about it and move on." While that style has generally applied to my organizational techniques in the past, I'm starting to learn that even a mediocre attempt will get me a lot farther than brushing off my finals schedule (it changed).

And for once, that 24-hour deadline was met.