NEWSFLASH: Everything they ever told you about college finals week is TRUE.
Well. Maybe not everything. (I don’t know what they told you.) But the ramp up to my very first finals at Gutenberg College was an entirely singular experience—I have never been through anything quite like it before.
It’s not that I’ve never been under a major deadline before. It’s just that throwing a stew made of my own tendency to procrastinate and my perfectionism into the pressure cooker that is Gutenberg during dead week… well, let’s just say that free time, sleep, and peace of mind ran dangerously low while surliness, procrastination, and worrying ran dangerously high.
I had some pretty dark moments this week—moments when I felt sure that Gutenberg should never have accepted me and that I was going to fail the whole program. Now that I’m on the other side, I can see how irrational I was being. (Although, no promises on the “not failing” part—I haven’t gotten my grades yet. 
) My tests went better than I expected and, although I am not satisfied with my papers, I did get most of them turned in.
Unfortunately, I do have a few late papers that I have to finish in the next day or so. So I’m not even completely done yet. But I am a lot closer than I ever thought I would be this time LAST week.
And, of course, once I AM done I will still be busy. But right now, juggling Christmas shopping and web and photography jobs and hours at my undisclosed retail location sound a lot more attractive than writing another paper about Plato.
(Oh, and I appreciated the break from blogging, too. From now on, I hope to blog, if not every day, at least more often than… ‘never’. How’s that for a promise? )
December 11th, 2006 at 9:39 am
web and photography jobs? cool. like what?
December 14th, 2006 at 9:05 am
You’re right - eleven to go. And that seems like an eternity. But trust me, none will be so long as that last one. And when you’re standing up with a black robe on receiving a diploma, you’ll never believe that all the years were equal in length either. Pretty soon, they start rushing by with disturbing alacrity.