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So I'm procrastinating hardcore right now, and was wondering who all else here is dealing with upcoming dead week/finals week/last-minute struggles with classes for the spring semester. What all do you have to do? How are you dealing with it? Is it easy, hard, or in-between? Are you feeling ok or nervous or stressed or numb or frantic or something else?

For me, I have three finals in a couple weeks here, but in the meantime I have at least one major assignment due for each class, but this one class is crazy because the prof kept pushing the second "midterm" exam back and back until it landed tomorrow (less than two weeks before the final) but the term paper is also due tomorrow and he refused to push it til Monday. (It'll be a good thing, I guess, to not have to do it on Easter, but...two major things both due tomorrow...)

I ended up having to pseudo-drop a class because I can't pass it. I have huge issues with sleep cycle and getting up and just missed too many lectures and lab sessions. This other class I'm struggling with but I think I can do it, I feel better about it now, but it will take several hours of work today and tomorrow.

Thankfully this is my last actual semester of classes, then I have one short summer session and then I will be DONE WITH SCHOOL FOREVER, FUCK YEAH assuming I pass everything.

What about you, fellow high school/college/grad students of f!s?

Trying to finish up my Uni course but keep getting sick. Fallen back into depression and basically, everything's falling apart.

If I fail, my friends will shun me.
If I take anti-depressants, my friends will shun me.

Not going so well here, diet_poison, to be honest.

I hope things go well for you though. Will keep my fingers crossed that you sail through. :)

Your friends will shun you for taking anti-depressants????? :C they honestly do not sound like terribly great friends, anon.

I hope you can pull through. That shit sucks so bad.

And thanks :)

It's complicated. I'm socially awkward anyway. I'm the type of friend people keep on the edge of their social circle. The one you call up if you need a favour but don't invite out often because they're painful to hang out with. That's me right there.

Basically I have to flay myself alive, socially, to keep them in my life as it is. The anti-depressants make it really, really hard to be who they want/need me to be.

*shrugs* That's just the way it is. They all think I'm oblivious to how things stand, and I'd happily keep it that way.

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I'm not in school at the moment but I wanted to wish you luck. I've always had trouble with the end of the semester. I had similar sleep trouble because stress makes my chronic fatigue worse. My semesters generally weren't very typical even before that though.

Thank you :)

I too am another short semester away from being finished with community college (I finally get to the math classes that matter, and they're supposed to be much easier. I'm supposed to pass the class I'm in, but I know from the past that even if I don't, they'll still let me in.)

I'm seeing if I can apply to Florida International University's IT program for the fall.

I don't even know. I got sick because I'm doing so much and barely sleeping. Classes, work, events, activism. I have no free time. But weirdly I'm also happier than I've been in a long time. Things are really clicking right now.

I have major sleep issues. Even aside from the lack of time, I have bad insomnia. I'm having a sleep study done next week, so hopefully they can figure something out.

I have about 3 weeks left in my quarter. And its scaring me. And i also have to start thinking about packing because I'll be moving to DC for the summer.

Oh man I really get what you mean with that first bit. Some of the happiest I've been is when I've been so busy with things to do. But I really do hope you can figure out how to get more sleep and take care of yourself! Hopefully the sleep study will help.

Don't put off packing forever! ~~like I always do~~

i'm on f!s instead of studying, i think that should tell you how my semester is going (in the toilet; it's going in the toilet).

:( I feel you on that man, I really do, and it sucks.

*all the hugs*

thanks for the hugs :)

it really does suck. i just handed a paper on beloved this morning, and as much as i liked the book, i'm really really glad to be done with it.

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diet_poison - 2014-04-18 13:33 (UTC) - Expand

I'm having a tough time for sure. It's like I'm incapable of thinking and writing critically anymore and I still have a bunch of stuff to do. I finished one of my courses early (online) but I still have a way to go in my other courses. I have two final papers (one's a final revision and the other's 10-12 pages), an analysis (3-5 pages), and 6 3T&Ts due next week. I'm trying not to freak out about it because freaking out makes it impossible for me to string words together.

I'd like some pointers on how to push through, myself.

What's a 3T&T?

I can give you some pointers but unfortunately I am not very good at doing that all the time myself. :( I do know that I have a tendency to think about aaaaaaall the things that need to be done, freeze up and freak out, and then do none of them. So one coping mechanism that has helped me a lot, and that I've started to do a bit more automatically, is stop thinking about everything and think about ONE THING. The rest of it isn't going to change or vanish while you're focused on something else. And when you finish one thing, that feeling of accomplishment is so great.

Hopefully people who are better at motivation and time management can chime in! I'm always interested in hearing those tips too.

(Also, taking breaks is good for you. I'm actually in one right now. If I try to read a textbook for too long, I fall asleep; try to write or process for too long, and I lose focus. Work for a while, play a game/get on f!s/check a blog, and work a little more. Baby steps!)

3T&Ts are like mini papers where you pick out 3 "threads" to examine in a text and then expand with a secondary source, then you write an annotated bibliography, citing your sources.

I think I'll take your advice and just focus on one thing at a time. If I think about everything right now, I know I'll freeze up like you said.

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diet_poison - 2014-04-18 05:55 (UTC) - Expand

I got the bulk of it done already, so I'm already over the hard part. Last week working was bad though, with studying, essays, and the always-horrible group project. I usually go running to relieve stress, but couldn't because of the weather, so I ate junk food instead. :/

I definitely eat when I'm stressed and it's usually junk because a) that's what I crave when I'm stressed/upset and b) I don't feel I have the time to cook right now.

I'm glad you got through the awful part - must feel great! That'll be me in a few weeks and I'm excited~

Good luck!

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I'm gearing up to write my final undergraduate paper ever!

:O woah! sounds intense!

Good luck, anon!

I'm starting this nonsense again in the fall. I maintain nothing will ever be as bad as my high school French teacher, though.

...dare I ask?

Dare! Dare!

No assignments all term, then an onslaught. They were all things akin to workbook pages, too, so it would have been so much more beneficial to have done them in conjunction with the unit/s. Plus tests, plus oral projects. All in, say, the last 2-2 1/2 weeks of a semester.

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I'm trying to wrap up my Bachelor's thesis for which I'm over two years late (some toxic mix of family trouble, depressions and "no we can't give you credit points for that extensive translation even though we told you we could so you'll have to do this, this and that) and I'm both anxious and in a state of "I don't even care anymore". My prof is really nice and understanding, though, and offered to look over the thesis before I actually hand it in so that's nice.

oh man, sounds rough. Don't you love college communication? I have had some trouble with that lately myself (boiling down to me taking a course I really don't need to take but am required to for graduation since I missed the opportunity to test out of it, among other things, it seems).

Best of luck, I hope it all goes well!

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