Commitment Philia

One of my current roommates made law review. This is great for him, but it's spurring some painful reconsideration of his schedule.
"What am I going to do, guys? I already have over twenty-five hours of commitments a week, plus class."
"Well, you get rid of some of those other commitments. What are they?"
"Well there's my work with the Defenders, and I just got elected General Secretary of the campus Dems, and I'm the new Executive Editor of the Human Rights Journal ..."
"Okay, well you should definitely drop that other journal."
"But I love the way 'Executive Editor of HRJ' looks on my resume."
"You'll love the way 'Harvard Law Review' looks more."
"Can't I do both?"
"No, you can not do both. At best, you will do a very bad job at both of them, and be miserable while doing it."
"But I love HRJ! And I love Defenders too. And doing research for Prof. S! I want to be able to do them all."
"Well, I want to be able to stop time like Zach Morris. And lift cars with my superhuman strength And ride a magic pony."
"Are you making fun of me?"
"Yes."