{"id":18828,"date":"2015-03-12T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatminds\/?p=18828"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:58:52","slug":"a-degree-of-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatminds\/2015\/03\/12\/a-degree-of-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"A Degree of Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 2 a.m. when Joshua Bailey slides behind the wheel of his car, the last one left in the star-lit mall lot. He checks his phone for missed texts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey JB, we\u2019re going out \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJosh, you able to chill tonight?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By now, though, at the end of the UMW senior\u2019s late shift at Splitsville, most of his classmates have called it a night.<\/p>\n<p>One of nine children, Bailey knew he\u2019d have to work to pay his way through college, but Double Drive wasn\u2019t his first stop. Like many of the 234 transfer students UMW admitted last semester, he got his start at community college. A star business student, he\u2019ll earn a bachelor\u2019s degree this summer. But with a 50-hour job, 20-minute commute, 12 credit hours, and one fianc\u00e9e, it\u2019s been a balancing act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to be conscious of what you do with your time. How much TV do you watch? How many video games do you play?\u201d Bailey said. \u201cYou have to take a bullet in that area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umwwebmaster.wpengine.com\/greatminds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/03\/JoshBailey_HP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18829\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatminds\/joshbailey_hp\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatminds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/03\/JoshBailey_HP.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4182,1995\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Norm Shafer@2014&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"JoshBailey_HP\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Josh Bailey&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatminds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/03\/JoshBailey_HP-300x143.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatminds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/03\/JoshBailey_HP-1024x488.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18829 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/umwwebmaster.wpengine.com\/greatminds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/03\/JoshBailey_HP-1024x488.jpg\" alt=\"JoshBailey_HP\" width=\"1024\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatminds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/03\/JoshBailey_HP-1024x488.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatminds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/03\/JoshBailey_HP-300x143.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatminds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/03\/JoshBailey_HP-768x366.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatminds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/03\/JoshBailey_HP-1140x544.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Growing up, his large family ran on teamwork. He shared a room with his brothers and helped raise the youngest, now 9 and 11, \u201cfrom the ground up.\u201d Home-schooled through eighth grade, Bailey played football in high school and worked \u2013 in retail, as a lifeguard, washing cars \u2013 to save for college.<\/p>\n<p>But when his friends and fianc\u00e9e Danielle left for four-year schools, he stayed put in Spotsylvania County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing home definitely saved me,\u201d said Bailey, who enrolled in community college and endured his buddies\u2019 tantalizing texts from big-campus parties. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to be waking up hung over when you\u2019ve got your little brothers looking at you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or when you\u2019re on the early shift at Splitsville, the bowling alley and movie theater where he\u2019s worked his way up, from food service to shift manager, supervising as many as 70 employees each night.<\/p>\n<p>He pours that same passion into school, earning an associate\u2019s degree and transferring under Virginia\u2019s Guaranteed Admissions Agreement to UMW, where he\u2019s ramped up his studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how he does it,\u201d said Assistant Professor of Marketing Kashef Majid. \u201cHe manages his time really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Impressed with Bailey\u2019s Applied Statistics project, <em>The Tipping Point<\/em>, based on Splitsville patrons\u2019 gratuities, Majid asked him to take it to a national conference in Miami last summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s one of the first people who really made Mary Washington click for me,\u201d Bailey said of Majid. \u201cHe saw an opportunity for me to learn and have fun, and he really put me on fire for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bailey\u2019s enthusiasm spills onto UMW\u2019s sports field, where he\u2019s played intramural volleyball, football, and Quidditch. He crams cleats, clothes, and books in his black Ford Escape so, if free time crops up, he\u2019s ready to study or play.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll marry Danielle in May, adding one more responsibility \u2013 husband \u2013 to the last leg of his Mary Washington journey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the time to push yourself as hard as you can,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cI\u2019m just one of many who are out of work at 3:30 and in class by 4.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMW taught transfer student Joshua Bailey to juggle \u2013 class, career, family and fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":18829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,81],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-show","8":"category-umw-home","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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