Reality Check
This is for all of you crazies out there who have forgotten how, when you are in college, the amount of sleep you get and number of meals you can actually sit down while eating is determined by the whims of your profs, and are indulging in false sentimentality about the good ol’ days of college or, possibly, even considering returning for a grad degree. Don’t do it.
I am currently doing a pointless assignment designed to teach me how to use flawed microsoft software that is already outdated and that will be completely obsolete by the time I reach a point in my career where I might need to use something for its’ inntended function anyways. So far the assignment has taken me 3.5 hours.
I have a different homework assignment for another class that I am puting off until after this one is finished, because I am getting an A right now in that class and am not doing so hot in the class the project I am working on now is for.
I have a test tomorrow in a third class which I have not even begun to study for yet, and while it’s not going to be the hardest exam in the world, it’s not the sort of exam you can blow off studying for either, and I didn’t do as well on the last exam I had in that class because I had three other exams within the two days before that exam.
So basically this ridiculous project is causing me to do poorly in two other classes in order to complete it. And no, I did not procrastinate starting the project and therefore bring it on myself; I have simply had a heinous course load right now and am trying to work on top of it.
19 Credit hours. Chuh. Brrr. Never again. Ever.
I am so tired. And I haven’t eaten a real meal (i.e. where I either cooked or sat down at a table– both at one meal would be too much to ask, I know, so in keeping with the spirit of outcome-based education I’ve lowered my standards to one or the other) since Saturday. No wonder I have heartburn so often.
