Good one, Mbossa, you fucking moron. Haven’t the past three-and-a-half years at Uni taught you anything about leaving things to the last minute? It’s now nearing midnight, and you’ve got 27 first-year assignments to mark and hand in by midday. You’ve also got two assignments of your own to do, each of them a week late.
Remember that day you spent fucking around? That day when you could have been doing work on your assignments but did absolutely nothing? No? Of course you don’t know what day I’m talking about - far too many days fit that description. If you’d pulled your finger out of your arse and actually did some work those days, you wouldn’t be in this mess right now!
Let’s see - 27 assignments to mark, at an estimated 20 minutes each - 9 hours. Looks like you’re not going to be getting any sleep tonight. That’s the price you pay for squandering those many, many weeks.
And look what you’re doing now! Fucking around on the SDMB! Idiot.
Been there, done that. Well not that exactly - I’m a student myself but not a TA. I’ve left things to the last minute way more often than I would like to admit.
You’ve dug yourself a nice big hole there buddy. All you can do now is do whatever you have to to get yourself out of this mess and hopefully learn from it.
I’ve found one coping technique to be quite helpful. Take a mini calendar/date-book thingamagigger (gotta love that word) with spaces for each date that are big enough to write a lot in. Then take each assignment, as soon as you know about it, and break it down into manageable chunks, putting each small chunk under a particular day. Writing down what you have planned out is the key. You will know on any given day exactly how much work you have to do and approximately how much time to set aside for it. My room mate developed this system to help her deal with tasks that would otherwise seem overwhelming.
Good luck!
Sidenote: On preview I have realized that you didn’t exactly ask for any advice. Actually, you didn’t ask for advice at all. All you really wanted was to vent and here I go with my grand old advice again… Aww shucks. Oh well, take it or leave it. :smack:
I’ll take it. The end of the semester is nigh (yay!), so after I’ve finished my assignments, and had a week or so of drunken debauchery, I’m going to try to sort out my life.
My research supervisor gave me some simple but really good advice that I’m seriously considering - ask for less TA work. I seem to cope well enough with the regular tutorials that I supervise (just a few hours a week), but the marking really seems to fuck me up. I can get by with a bit less money, especially considering that the bulk of my TA pay comes from tutoring anyway.
Oh well, this batch of marking’s going better than I thought. The first few took about half an hour each, but then I got into the swing of things and I’m churning them out every 10 minutes or so. I’m just here right now for a short sanity break.