Retreat

Each year, an organization I am in attends a yearly retreat with all members to participate in the proverbial group bonding, leadership training, etc.  This past weekend our retreat was held about two hours from campus.  Normally I would ride the bus with everyone, but this time I had to make a hard decision.  I have been overwhelmed with the amount of out-of-class work assigned by my professors recently, and after talking with the group sponsor, I elected to stay for only one day of the retreat.  This meant that I could have more time to work on homework and assignments, but it also meant that I would have to drive myself and pay for my own gas.  While I am glad I had a little more time to devote to my course work, it was an expense I was not planning on and therefore did not budget for it.  Sure it would have been easy just to skip the whole thing, but we were all counting on everyone to be there, at least for some amount of time, so I had to make the sacrifice.