Oh, and I got that survey completed, and it’s ready to be sent out over e-mail. Woohoo.
That’s one thing to completely check off the list.
I’m sick to my stomach because my 15 page research paper is due tonight, and while it’s finished, I’m convinced it’s awful dreck and I’m going to fail and get kicked out of school and be forced to live in a van down by the river…
Other than that, I have a paper on Antigone (that great, age old question–who is the hero?), a paper on Awakening (if I don’t get at least a B on this paper, I will not be allowed to graduate with a B.A. in English. No pressure though) I also have to (get to?) read Psycho, The Shunned House, um The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Hellbound Heart, plus I have a research paper for my SEx and Gender class (standard 8 pages, 'm not worried…) Oh god, and I forgot about my creative writing class. I have a few more novels to read, one other book about writing, she gives me writing assignmens every week, we’re working on my novel as well, and she expects me to turn in at least 70 pages of journaling, and she wants me to go to at least 3 poetry workshops before the end of the semester.
Then of course I get to cram for 5 finals.
Wee.
Ha, pepperlandgirl, I actually had to write an essay question on a midterm about the Antigone/Creon thing. I did fairly well on it though that was because the teacher was an easy marker. Nevertheless, shoot me an email if you want to chat about it.
Since I last posted, I have been goofing off. Back to the grind!
And I can’t even think about finals yet - 3 papers to hand in before then.
Oh, I forgot to add - nor do I feel like I have the luxury of worrying about the quality of my papers anymore, either. I just want them done.
Ug.
I have to debate someone on the legalization of pot on Wednesday. (I’m going against it.)
I have a 30 page paper due in about two weeks on the relationship between trade liberlization and India.
And various finals.
A few choir concerts.
Oofgah.
Woo Boy,
Let’s see, it’s just after 9 now, classes start tomorrow at 9:30. I have a 10-12 page paper, a quiz on a 300+ page book, the last german “mid-term” of the semester, and a presentation to give on another book. All of these for tomorrow. Did I mention I haven’t started to do work for any of them. Oh, and I just got the guitar I bought from ebay and now want to start learning to play.
I would love to get the work done early, sit back, have time to revise my papers, maybe have a beer or two with my roommies. Unfortunately, I am totally unable to do anything early. I must procrastinate. It’s not a choice, honest. I try to write, I try to read, I try to study, I just can’t do it. So instead, I read threads on the dope…or waste my time any other way I can. Until it’s now…12 hours to go…crunch time. My time to shine!
What school do you go to?
You have the exact schedule of my friends and me.
For Friday:
Analytical Chemistry 3 assignment - done, but needs to be rewritten neatly
Applied Biochemistry assignment - done, needs a reveiw and edit and print
Metabolic Processes paper - one page of 12 done, not looking forward to the rest.
The good news is, I have no classes Tues/Thurs so I can work on that paper and get it done early.
Next week:
Tuesday: Applied and Analytical Finals
Friday: Metabolic Processes Final
Saturday: Biochemical Toxicology Final
Saturday night…PARTY!!!
As of that point, I am DONE my BSc!!!
College apps. Deadlines approaching.
Extended essay for IB due mega-soon. 11 pages to make not-sucky, a couple appendices to write, bibliography to put together.
I have to teach an 11th grade class about one of the major themes in a Garcia Marquez book tomorrow, and I haven’t touched the book since September.
English essay due tomorrow. Haven’t started.
Math quiz tomorrow, test Monday. Don’t know any of the rules. Stupid calculus.
I need to get 150 hours of community service type hours signed off by 13 different people in the next two weeks.
Three bio labs, all completely open-ended, due by Wednesday.
I loooove high school.
Way to much to list. The big thing is my final exam for one class is a portfolio that i am suposed to be doing. Not a big deal if I have to present it on the exam date, but no, becuase I sit on the far side of the room and was one of the last to sign up I have to present it on the Friday before exams while half of my class gets to have a whole extra weekend to work on it! This is worth 300 points out of a possible 1000 points of my grade too.
I hate college and high school does not prepare you for college at all!
The load’s pretty light because most of my classes are either lecture-sized or liberal studies. No papers due, and the only real non-exam work I’ve done are little projects that were due around midterm time. The biggest worry right now is passing my finals and doing well on my German plauderei (oral exam, roleplaying style). The only other things on top of that which I have to get done is filling out paperwork for FAFSA, Bright Futures scholarship, a lease agreement (etc.) for an apartment for next fall, my housing contract for the spring, and probably some more job applications (with attached spring semester schedule). Oh, wait, forgot about the bus ride home I have to arrange. Much easier than the time I had last year when I had several papers, no money, and lots of stress when my mother had no job. Hopefully spring semester will be this easy!
For everyone who’s stressed out, calm down and get one thing at a time done. I’m sure you’ll all do well, if not fabulously.
LaurAnge, if you weren’t in Montreal I’d suspect you were one of my classmates. Or possibly me. You aren’t, are you?
Wait, you can’t be, you already finished 5 pages of a 12 page essay. In your position I wouldn’t have even started the readings for the essay yet. In fact, I consider starting out the night before with 5 pages already done to be a good sign.
You know, I can’t remember the last time I finished a project on time; that is, not staying up until the wee hours working feverishly on it, and possibly skipping sleep, too. I think in high school I used to finish asssignments on time, but it may be a hallucinated memory induced by lack of sleep. In fact, right now I have a presentation to do tomorrow where I still haven’t picked the topic. Good old Anthropology: Research Design, where would my Tuesday evenings 7-10 PM be without you?
And I have another presentation to do on Thursday, but I’m partnered up with someone, and she’s less of a procrastinator than me, so it kind of works out.
I have more projects due than just these, but I’m too lazy to list them.
But keep the faith, LaurAnge! You know, one of these days we procrastinators should form an organization or something to defend our lazy-assed habits. But only if there’s nothing on tv.
PS
Don’t worry. It all works out in the end. Sometimes it works out to a failing grade, but what are ya gonna about it? Besides use your time more wisely, I mean.
By the way, akennett, you win.
Co-ordinating and editing (read “writing the damn thing myself”) a 5000-word, 10-person group research project on oral contraceptives. It’s due in 3 weeks, and everyone seems to have forgotten about these nifty little things called references.
Also I have a pharmacology MCQ paper worth 20% of the grade in 3 weeks, and they’re giving us the last 2 lectures on the morning of the day of the exam.
Not a happy bunny.
Sinungaling, I procrastinate, but I never procrastinate THIS badly! This is a new record for me. I’m usually frantic if my stuff isn’t done two days before it’s due.
Editing paper #1 now, and after I get home from school I need to write paper #2. Took some good notes on it last night, but I didn’t start writing it.
Good luck, everyone!
hmm, I have a week’s worth of Euro homework to do, a 3 page essay, a book to read, and a 2 page writing assignment to do, although not an essay. I also have to learn how to do this crap we’re doing in calculus (solids of revolution? When am I going to use that?) It looks like high school is less stressful than college 
Two days? I’d kill for a two day lead. I hereby retract my invitation into the procrastinator’s club. For shame!!
smiles I finished my finals on the 15th of November, and I’m graduating in a fortnight!
However, the week before finals I was on intern in the University Teaching Hospital, so got no sleep. I had a lecturer call me while I was there to let me know that if my 2000 word epidemiology assignment (the one I was yet to start) wasn’t on his desk by Monday afternoon then I wouldn’t be graduating. I also had viva voce’s in 4 species and a 4 hour written paper to study for…
So, on the Monday lunchtime I started the epi paper, and faxed it off at 3pm (I thought it was pretty good that I managed to read all my journals and write the paper in 3 hours).
I then had 24 hours to revise everything to do with cattle… I had one viva a day tuesday to friday, and the written paper on saturday morning.
I had had less than 24 hours of sleep in the entire week preceding finals, due to being on intern…
But hey, I passed everything!
I had to look the left to determine whether you could possibly be in my class. :eek: Odd that we both have 12 page essays due on the same day (which was yesterday - note, I’m still writing mine!)
I did the exact same thing, except mine was due yesterday and I only have 7 and a half pages written. Fortunately, the other four pages are just supposed to be discussion of the paper itself, and with some added BSing I can probably come up with a 12 page paper by tomorrow.
I also just turned in a 7 page philosophy paper and wrote a lab exam.
Tomorrow I have to present a power point presentation to my thesis class, which I haven’t started, and I’ve never used power point before.
I have to talk to my thesis advisor, who I’m supposed to see weekly - but I’ve only seen him once this year.
I’m running on no sleep and very little food, due to lack of appetite, and I’ve actually got sores on my head, shoulders and neck. Sadly, this is all my fault - I work, too, and when school started, at first my job gave me too many hours and I couldn’t keep up with school. As I fell behind, going to school started to make me panicky/vomity/fainty feeling, so I skipped a lot of class, falling even more behind and intensifying the panicky feeling. It was a vicious cycle, and now I’m trying to pull myself out of it.
Ugh, there’s so much more I have to do but I can’t even think about it for long enough to write about it 
Have to go take a 2 hour nap before class - I stayed up all night working on what I have so far of this paper! I just look forward to Thursday night, I’ll finally get to sleep!
Sinungaling, you are totally me. My eyes are quite foggy right now… NO SLEEP!
Are any of you late on doing projects/papers but still passing them in anyway? Maybe you can give me hope it’ll be okay!
raises fist in triumph BUT THERE’S ALWAYS… cue fanfare NEXT TERM! The term where rinni will reign supreme over all things academic!
… I need a hug.
I’m writing my psych paper now. My prof accepts this by e-mail, so when I’m done, off it goes!
Then, all I have to do is finish Saladin, write that paper, and finish my presentation for Mass Communications. For that, I get to argue that pr0n is good. Can’t beat it! 
Robin