I'm taking this class that is absolutely required for my major for the 3rd time and I'm getting beyond-nervous about finishing this project I have due this Friday...since I have a cold I haven't been able to "rush" like I usually do, and I'm still learning how to cope w/ my ADD. I'm just so tired of this class, but I'm so tired from my cold, too. (sigh) I don't know. I'm just so scared I won't finish and that I'll be pushing myself to the point where this cold turns into something more severe (been there done that repeatedly NOT fun).

I know someone out there knows what I'm talking about. Trying way too many times to see no result. And I'm no stranger to taking classes repeatedly to pass them. (I did it a couple times when I was in college the first time around and basically did a virtual redo of an entire semester of law school.)

Right about now I'd like to punch whoever first said that whatever you don't finish today can be finished tomorrow because I've spent too many "tomorrows" catching up and here I am...YET AGAIN. :(

semi-unrelated rant: ...and everyone told me things would be better once I did something I absolutely loved. Well I AM, and I'm still facing the same problems...THAT'S how I know it's ADD and not some quarter-life crisis because I should be getting a PhD with the effort I put into school! >=T

another rant: I don't care what anyone says, art school is WAY harder than traditional undergrad. @ least back then I only had to keep track of a couple books, paper and a pen. Nowadays it's exponentially more things to keep track of! ugh!!!

How did it go Jacque?

I know what your talking about. I'm so behind in my studies -- just thinking about it makes me nervous. Often when I try to be proactive and do something this overwhelming fear, this feeling that whatever I do now I'll still never be able to tackle it all in reasonable time, comes over me and I freeze and soon find something else to do that doesn't bring out the fear.

I know what you mean about rushing to finish things. I think we are suppose to pace are selves so they are done.

Yeah I wish I knew who said that about what you dont get done today you can do tomorrow.... well not when it come to education.

I am behind in some of my papers in education. The rest is falling into place. Buy a calendar that they use for the day planners so you can see the month at a glance and then write all you reading and assignments on the day they are due. This might help you to organise what you study ... I think we all need to work on time mangage ment... I am with my psychologist.

another rant: I don't care what anyone says, art school is WAY harder than traditional undergrad. @ least back then I only had to keep track of a couple books, paper and a pen. Nowadays it's exponentially more things to keep track of! ugh!!!
So, so true! Personally, I think its because unlike some other subjects, deadlines are set months in advance. Consequently, everything ends up being left until the last minute. =doom. I too am taking the subjects that I supposedly love...and now part of me regrets it; the workload is so much taking Art and Design Tech together, along with two other subjects. The vast vast majority in my year had the sense not to take both, but Im a fool...

Did you mean the friday as in the 30th March? Or the next one: 6th April?
If the former - did you manage to do it?
If the latter - good luck :)

- DFTO

Side note: First post ^_^. I'll post an into some other time when Im not wanting to get an early bedtime :o

i knew i wasn't the only one w/ grief! =) well, my original deadline was last friday (march), and i didn't make it because around 3am i realized i wouldn't be able to do 8 hours of work in 4, but some very interesting things:

-i wasn't the only one turning in a incomplete project. i was the first one to present and admit it (the rest of the people who were unfinished showed up at least half an hour late...), so i got the brunt of the lecturing. this is the first time in the 5 semesters i've been @ this school that i've had allies. i'm rather speechless, but i'm still pretending i'm the only one so i don't get "lazy"

-i'm allowed to turn in my project late, so now i'm turning it in tomorrow/thursday instead. i'm trying my best not to remember all the times it happened before, just trying to remember what i can learn from this particular experience. =T

=T at the end of last week i was just hoping that with this new project i have that i don't panic because of stuff that happened in the past.

seriously, the most profound lessons i learn in school never have to do w/ what i'm learning directly, lol =)