Swamped

HLS has many many amazing opportunities. Too many opportunities. So many, in fact, that some version of the following scenario will arise inevitably during any HLS student's career:

The scenario: A friend of yours who plays some important role in an organization on campus will approach you. He/she will have a particular look in his/her eye that is hard to describe but impossible to mistake once you've seen it. You know that organization has a particularly annoying and large task to accomplish in the near future. You also know that if you add one more thing to your To-Do list, you will Low Pass all your classes.

The solution:

1. Run in the opposite direction. The problem is that in a class with 500 people, many of whom will know you and also play important roles in institutions on campus, this gets physically draining after a while.
   
2. Practice what you learned in D.A.R.E., and "just say no."

Trust me, I know. Over the course of this semester, I failed to say "no" sufficiently firmly. Several times. Low passes here I come?