“Someone—I don't remember who it was—said they leave school at school. And my first year I did not do that. I took everything home and I was like, ‘Oh, I'm on the couch, but I should be working’, etc. and I was like, ‘I can't live this way’. So now—I mean I'm here, it's 5 o'clock, but I would so much rather stay until 5 o'clock and get a bunch done, and then I go home. Whatever I got done I got done and when I go home, that's it—it's over. I just don't bring work home and I come in early because my brain works best in the morning. I come in early, I stay a little late, I get done what I need to get done, and I just don't take work home. And that's huge for me.”
“I think part of it is having other things that are really important to me that I do outside of school (….) I do a lot of union work. I don't generally do union work [while here]—I go home and do that. And I knit. And I cook. I just have hobbies and things that I care about. I don't want to say I don't have time to do work at home, but I try to not make time to do work at home by filling the time with other things that are more important. It also helps that I generally am so brain-dead at the end of the day that it's like—what am I going to do? Actually, it's not going to be good, whatever it is. So waking up early and coming in early, I'm giving school my best brain, which is in the morning, and I'm just giving it at school. And so then the rest, when my brain is mush after school, or you know—whatever, at 6 o'clock—it's not a good brain anyway.”