Daphne Cunningham Diaries, UA Digital Collection

With school, extracurricular activities, work and countless other tasks that fill my days as a college student, it's hard to find time to even breathe. Now add a social life on top of all that and it is enough to make me feel like I couldn't possibly do anything else without simultaneously combusting.

Even though I might feel like I am the busiest person on the planet, countless other college students could easily compete for the same title.

But we aren't the only generation of college students with seemingly too much on our plates. The college life has been like this for decades.

And you're asking, "How do you know?" Well it just so happens I recently came across the diary of a college student by the name of Daphne Cunningham in the UA Libraries' Digital collection. A 1916 University of Alabama graduate and member of Kappa Delta sorority, Cunningham's diary provides an interesting view of college life in the early twentieth century.

Daphne Cunningham provided detailed entries of her time spent studying, going on dates and attending parties. Below is an image scan of one of Cunningham's diary entries.

As you can see, Daphne Cunningham was as busy as any college student today. And her dating life was much more extensive than mine has been...ever.

By reading the diary of Daphne Cunningham, we can learn more about the University of Alabama that she attended.