Countdown to finals

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Subject: Andygirl, first year student at venerable New England College.

Tasks:
Complete paper on noun incorporation in Mohawk.
Complete paper on Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods, focusing on his conclusion that Atlantis is Antarctica.
Complete paper on Judaism in America.
Study for Anthropology exam.

Timeframe:
First two papers due on the 30th.
Third paper due on the 31st.
Exam on the 2nd.

Ammunition:
Altoids (Innumerable)
MP3s (Several hundred)
Mochas (10)
Combos (Nacho cheese)

Distractions:
SDMB
Thoughts of quietgirl, who is coming up on the 1st to help me pack and move home.
Burning desire to do anything except work.
Friends
Activities

Going to be a long week…

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::comes into thread, mumbling something about “if you want an editor”::

::Senses andygirl probably does not want an editor who doesn’t know vast amounts about the topics of her papers::

::gives her a hug for good luck and leaves to shower::

Because I hadn’t yet showered today, in case y’all were left wondering . . . :slight_smile:

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With that TMI in my head, I will now quite happily read about noun incorporation.

Yeah polysynthetic languages!

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Good luck andygirl.

Now stop reading this and get back to work. :smiley:

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;j :confused: :eek:

I’m sorry that you have so much work to do my love…

:smiley: See you soon beautiful girl.

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You go! Like this can get you down?!

I know you’ll beat the snot out of finals and be home with quietgirl sooner than possible. Your stength and brilliance demonstrated here give me confidence in you. Rock the world and unplug the internet.

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Never let it be said that I cannot inspire someone to go far, far away from the SDMB:D

I am now, by the way (not that you cared), fully dressed and showered, though not in that order.

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Good luck on Finals, andygirl!

[sub]Nice to see some of you people still in class in May/June. At UCLA and in high school, we never ended our school year until June. Most people I know ended their school year before I ended mine (they started earlier, too)[/sub]

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sends andygirl a crate of Altoids though she is virtually a total stranger but IS a student and understands finals and papers and all that crap

Just think of that beautiful feeling when you’re watching a paper print. There’s nothing else quite like it in the world. Almost makes writing the damn things worth it. :slight_smile: (I had two papers due within a week of each other at the end of this last semester. I really do feel your pain.)

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I know how you feel. At the minute I should be revising for my 3rd year exams in Chaos, Finance, Mathematical Economics and Game Theory. My computer’s not helping either. Nor this damn website. Oh well.
Good luck with everything.

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And here I am almost two weeks into summer classes. This week I’ll have six class periods, each an average of nearly three hours long. Tuesday and Thursday 4:30-10, wednesday and friday 7-10.

But I have neither altoids nor a girlfriend with which/whom to get sidetracked, so it should be easier:)

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Gaaahh…

:frowning:

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andygirl, I think you’re missing a key ingredient:

soda.

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Ohhhhh, Andygirl, I know your pain.

And I am a fellow Altoids fan. I’ll also be using quite a bit of Vivarin and ma huang (aka “ephedra”) before the week is over.

I have a paper (20 pg. maximum) due on Wednesday. It’s about recommendations for improving our methods of biological control of the gypsy moth in N. America. I also have a humungous lab report due then. And there’s yet another paper due on Thursday. Plus, I’m going to have to spend Thursday out at my research site. (It’s just outside the teeming metropolis of South Bloomingville, OH, USA, for those of you who care to know. I’m about 1.5 hours northwest of there, at Ohio State U., in Columbus, Ohio.) Research trips (My fellow entomology and ecology people usually call them “field days.” Yes, I’ve heard all the jokes about having a field day with what I do. I should probably post that in the thread about stupid comments we’re sick of hearing…but I digress.) demand a certain amount of planning and organizing ahead of time, and you have to be able to think clearly while you’re out there working. Right now, I’m feeling pretty screwed.

What have I actually accomplished so far?

Well…I have photocopied and read one of the articles I’ll be using in my biocontrol paper. And, um…well, that’s about it. Oh, yeah–and most of the supplies I need for my field day have already been bought, and are sitting in a pile all together at my lab bench. (Except for the stuff that’s in a pile all together on the bedroom floor.)

Ecch.

Well, I say we martial our energies and GO FOR IT!! We WILL get through this without any major damage.

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Am I the only one who suffers from a vicious cycle of anxiety and procrastination? When I start to work on major projects, I get physically sick and my heart races from nervousness. So I go do something else to calm down for a while. After my heart rate returns to normal, and I start to feel human again, I notice that HOLY CRAP!!! I’ve just wasted x number of PRECIOUS HOURS that I should have been applying to my project!!! And the anxiety kicks in again, but made worse this time, so another period of calming down is required…This keeps on snowballing until I’m too exhausted to be nervous any more. This cycle was a problem for me in my undergrad, but I got through it–not well, but well enough. Now I’m in grad school, and if I don’t bring this under control SOON, it’s going to kill my career.

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OK.

Now I’m going back to working on my paper.