Wishing I could pause for one week
I just finished 1 of 3 reading response essays I have to do for my on-line class. The immediate pride was washed away by the realization that I have much more to do. I wish I had one week where I could get ahead of everything: school work, job training, cleaning, and everything else. All of my anthropology classes require so much reading and while I love them i am very tired. In total for this semester I have to do 11 reading response essays. I have done 2. They all vary in length: 400 words for food & culture, 3-4 pages for asian studies, and 4-5 pages for middle eastern studies. The problem is for each one you have to read at least 2 (F&C) or 3 (others) articles, summarize, analyze, and interpret them while making relevant comments and observations that would challenge your classmates to respond. Oh, and on the weeks you don't post, you are supposed to respond to the students who did. It is fun work, it just takes a lot of time. I also have to do 3 class presentations throughout the semester, and I did one last thursday and I have my group presentation for F&C this wednesday. I will be happy when my presentations are over but after those come the major papers. I only have 5 major papers this semester but all of my classes have decided they will be "fun" and require us to do mini- papers on newspaper articles, off campus trips, and journal articles. Again, I like all these but there are so many!
Things due this coming week:
Monday: have 2 chapters read for sociology: race & ethnic relations
Tuesday: have F&C project done and ready to present at group meeting, exam 1 for statistics
Wednesday: all reading response essays due for this week for all anth classes, class presentation for F&C
Thursday: all hw due for study of languages and middle eastern studies classes, first meeting for Strictly Speaking group. (I'm a tutor [in a casual sense] for 3 non-native English speakers at UHCL.)
Friday: newspaper article due for middle eastern studies course
Sometime during the next few weeks, I need to conduct an interview & record it with a non-English speaker, find a study abroad program (though I have been searching for weeks and no school seems to be offering any this summer), finish all my scholarship essays (4), work at Walgreens, go to a middle eastern site and write a paper over it, analyze a sociological journal article, do r.r.e. and schedule to be a Guinea pig for the psych grad students.
I know I have not really talked to any friends since school has started, it doesnt help that I got really sick with a stomach virus either (gross), and i have been cranky. It just gets really tiring to hear all the negativity all the time. I have a lot to do, I don't need friends to give me a hard time about things that don't concern them. I am probably being to sensitive but still.
Things due this coming week:
Monday: have 2 chapters read for sociology: race & ethnic relations
Tuesday: have F&C project done and ready to present at group meeting, exam 1 for statistics
Wednesday: all reading response essays due for this week for all anth classes, class presentation for F&C
Thursday: all hw due for study of languages and middle eastern studies classes, first meeting for Strictly Speaking group. (I'm a tutor [in a casual sense] for 3 non-native English speakers at UHCL.)
Friday: newspaper article due for middle eastern studies course
Sometime during the next few weeks, I need to conduct an interview & record it with a non-English speaker, find a study abroad program (though I have been searching for weeks and no school seems to be offering any this summer), finish all my scholarship essays (4), work at Walgreens, go to a middle eastern site and write a paper over it, analyze a sociological journal article, do r.r.e. and schedule to be a Guinea pig for the psych grad students.
I know I have not really talked to any friends since school has started, it doesnt help that I got really sick with a stomach virus either (gross), and i have been cranky. It just gets really tiring to hear all the negativity all the time. I have a lot to do, I don't need friends to give me a hard time about things that don't concern them. I am probably being to sensitive but still.