The beauty of attending a small university where being involved on campus is easy can also be the possible downfall for many of Baker’s students.

Most everyone is a member of multiple organizations, and as Thanksgiving break draws near and finals approach, the workload begins to pile up just as motivation hits rock bottom.

We have tests, papers, practice, games, meetings and fitting in sleep somewhere between it all.

But that’s the thing; everyone is busy.

I’m not the only one who is busy.

You’re not the only one who is busy.

We’re all busy.

We are all full-time students.

Many of us are student-athletes.

Many of us have jobs and commitments outside the classroom.

Whenever I get on Facebook, I can feel the gray hairs sprouting out of my head, because just reading status after status, complaint after complaint, all about how busy and stressed students are, is stressing me out even more.

We all just need to stop, and I don’t mean stop being involved or stop going to class or stop working hard.

I mean stop complaining, please.

As stressful as everything is, we put it upon ourselves.

I choose to be a student and cheerleader.

I choose to spend my Wednesday nights in the newsroom.

And I do it, too. My Facebook status begs for winter break or summer almost once a week.

But I need to stop, and so does everyone else.

Instead of wasting away extra time tweeting about the paper due tomorrow or the test in three hours or the 6 a.m. practice we don’t want to wake up for, we should just do it.

How can we complain about what we volunteer to do?

Why do we do it in the first place if it is so awful?

Because it isn’t awful, we are just lazy.

If being a student is the worst thing that has ever happened to you, aren’t you doing pretty well?

So, for the last few weeks of the semester, I’m done.

I can’t promise I won’t post a status showing excitement to go home or how I’m so happy it is winter break, but I can say that I’m done complaining.

I’m done making every other overloaded student feel even more weighed down because I want the world to know just how much I have to get done in the next 24 hours.

Besides, you other overworked students should have more to worry about than how stressed I am, because you have a hectic schedule, too.