Work hard, relax harder

It’s been a little while, so let’s see if I can still do this. Here’s the tl;dr, in case you came here just to read one sentence.

tl;dr Work hard, relax harder.

I’m nearing the end of my internship. While I’ve been working hard the entire time, I especially want to work harder now. The first few weeks set the precedent for how much work I could do during the rest of the internship. My work during the last few weeks, however, is what will be remembered. Did I finish everything I was assigned? Did I step up when asked to fix a production bug at 5 on a Friday? Did I work late on Monday night so I could get ahead for the week?

The answer to all of these is yes. And they all happened this past week. Hell yeah, I enjoyed it. I always do. The problem is, I’m super tired because of it.

Did I not mention I'm a rabbit?

So, my Friday night didn’t consist of ridiculous shenanigans like it usually does. There is no way to work a crazy week and party every night (okay, well sometimes, but not for 3 months straight). My Friday night consisted of hanging out in the office with my co-workers, playing Settlers of Catan for my first time and eating wings and cheesy bread.

Like this, but with less girls.

So, it was a rough night as you can guess (first world problems, anybody?), and I needed my recovery time. Nothing says relaxing like sleeping late, streaming How I Met Your Mother, and drinking coffee in bed all day.

What can we learn from this? Well, life is tough. We all try our hardest and burn out. But it’s important to remember to watch How I Met Your Mother and lounge in bed every once in a while. Spending a Friday night playing board games or a Saturday night alone watching TV is as fun as you make it. I have a good friend who has a few canned responses to things, and one fits extremely well here:

Me: Man, this lab is so tough! I’m never going to be able to write a custom memory allocator in the next 2 days.

Him: Not with an attitude like that!

We can all take a lesson from this wise super-senior (you know I love you). It’s all about attitude and balance. But more on that later.

And being a bad-ass kid.