Not such a good day.

For the last few weeks, my mood had been so positive... and now it's going way down. Seems like nothing works out quite the way I want. I'm having problems with almost all my classes:

Monday's class: I'm feeling very unmotivated because the readings are so repetitive, and class discussions always revolve around the same thing. I'm not feeling challenged at all so it's hard to find the energy to do the reading.

Tuesday's class: I spend all this time doing the reading, but because there are so many people doing presentations and they take so long, we barely have time to discuss the readings. The little time we have to discuss them, I rarely find anything clever to say. I'm working hard, but it's not paying off at all. That's so frustrating.

Wednesday's class: That one is ok. It's very hard, but the prof has a way of making me feel "challenged" rather than "overworked" He's sneaky that way

My thesis: I got the first draft back from my prof and he had a lot of constructive criticism... which means I need to do tons of revision by next week before I hand in the official (graded) draft and do my public presentation.

Walking home from school today, I was in tears just from the weight of it all. Aside from class reading, I have my thesis to finish and 3 20-page research papers to do research for and then write. I've been working so hard this semester and things aren't working out as well as I'd hoped.


Sorry if that made no sense, I just needed to get it off my chest.
I'm going back to my reading now.

Awww, hun- thats too bad, sending many vibes to you that things turn around quickly

its ok, school does that to one,
i can remember being so burned out once, that over break all i wanted to do was sit outside in the sun and read fun books and smoke(i smoked back then).

stay with it, i

I'm so sorry that you're having a rough time. Chin up - things have a way of working themselves out, and you've worked really hard for this! You can do it!

for you, Marie. All that hard work will be worth it in the end.

Aw Marie, that sounds really rough, I certainly do not envy you. I hope it gets better soon

Thanks everyone

I'm feeling better now. I did some reading for tomorrow's class and it was really interesting

I think I'll be fine... maybe it's just PMS playing tricks on me

Sometimes school work can really be a drag...I had days where I wonderd what the heck was I even doing there...why am i paying money to listen to crap...to read crap and then have to produce lengthy papers on crap.
Once you get that long paper out of the way...do a little somthing for yourself..get your hair done,buy a new outfit, treat yourself to an awesome dinner or dessert somewhere nice...just do something to remind you that your more than those boring disscusion and horrible classes.

Originally Posted by EricaNicole

Sometimes school work can really be a drag...I had days where I wonderd what the heck was I even doing there...why am i paying money to listen to crap...to read crap and then have to produce lengthy papers on crap.

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When I was in school I wondered why I was paying so much money to be essentially kicked in the head over and over again. Nothing like paying to be abused, hey?

My thoughts are with you. The best advice I can offer is to just keep in mind what the end result you're looking for is. Okay, so your readings are boring, classes bore you to tears and you're overwhelmed with work. But imagine how awesome it'll be when you're done and you can get to do what you've worked so hard for. If it helps any, I used to find myself getting really stressed about unimportant things. By the end if a project was worth like 5% of my final grade I'd figure it's not worth freaking out over. Sure, I'll do it, but I won't kill myself over it. Good luck!