** Anxiety attack alert! ** Anxiety attack alert! **
This weekend it hit home to me that I am only 9 weeks away from finals week. I have three classes in which I have to do some major research and projects. I have a MAJOR project for my metaphysics class (we're talking 20 pages). I just finished a paper for Phil of Law, leaving me with two more papers and two oral presentations for that class. (But the oral presentations are no big deal, just talking about the papers.) Also I have to do some research and a presentation for my communications class - the topic being "Is democracy in a foreign country worth fighting for?" .... What kind of question is that? How the he__ am I supposed to answer that?
I wouldn't be stressing except for the metaphysics project. Final paper topics are due today. Yesterday I went to the library and ALL the books on ALL the suggested topics were checked out. I realize I shouldn't have procrastinated, but it's frustrating because I did make a bona fide attempt to do the work and the materials just weren't there. I'll talk to Korcz and he'll probably work with me but I may lose points just the same.
Add to the mix everything else - graduation coming, time to update the resume and start looking for a job, (really should have done that a couple of months ago) ... there's just no time to do anything with my schedule.
Well, after writing it out it doesn't seem quite so bad. Looking forward to having more of a social life after graduation and getting settled.
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Ahhhh the coveted social life, yeah i was inundated with social activities over the weekend (seeing as Mary was in town) and what do i have to show for it? ~300 dollars less then i had before this weekend, a lost cell phone, a computer that won't turn on, and for all this a couple fond memories.
No, but what is scary is that i'm seriously stressing about graduation and the Metaphysics class. My only saviour is the dreaded D. I learned not to long ago that all i need to pass French for Reading and Physics is a D since they are not in my Major and they are completeing courses for that study. Metaphysics on the other hand is a bit of a tough one. I need a C or better, which i'm sure i'll get but i will also be working a lot on this paper.
NOT to mention a couple hidden difficulties, April 8th i have to have a paper finished and ready to submit for Graduation schools. The paper has to be 5,000 words and have been turned in for a Philosophy class. That little bugger is also stressfull.
Oh well. Good luck on the job hunt.
It's always good to hear of someone else's misery ... makes one feel so much better about one's own situation ...
It seems that most of us feel these pressures to perform and achieve. I wonder if people have always felt this way or if this comes with the fast-paced lifestyle we have created for the 21st century.
Ohhhh please... this is such a modern day notion. The penny novel was created because people did not have the time to devote to reading full novels. We are a society gearing up for our own demise due to our desire to produce 24 - 7.
I have serious difficulty imagining a peasant-man or woman having difficulty sleeping because they had so much on their mind. Nor can i imagine cavemen or women grunting about meeting a quota of some kind.
The best description i've heard is that we have traded our fears of the unknown for the ritual of the known. In other words during the cavemen years we were confronted with the unknown on a daily basis. Now we are confronted with the rituals we have created surrounding all that we know. It is very rare we approach something and think, i really don't know what that is.
This is also a reason i think UFO's exist. People have the desire for something real to be unknown and thereby UFO's fit that need.
I'm ranting now... but this phenomena is definitly a modern day phenomena.
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