World - Please give a warm welcome to your newest chain smoking insomniac.
Its 6 am.... I've just returned from a cycle on a dark cold morning to work things out in my head and to get more cigarettes. I stopped working at 5 am only to find out that assignment can't be handed in as I didn't attend the hour long seminar. It was already late. Let me back track.....
In this economic climate I was happy to take a job offered to me in what I can only call 'Dumb Stores'. Not only did this job provide me with the worst working experience I was ever to encounter, it also, it seems has almost robbed me of my first semester and valuable ECTS that I cannot now submit for. My 'part time' job gave me working hours straight after college til 11pm or thereabouts 5 or 6 nights a week. Asking for a reduction in these hours led me to be chastised about my availability but they 'would see what they could do'. The rota was never altered and I was continually given full time, if not, more than fulltime hours. I need to work to support myself through college but now I have missed deadlines coming out my ears. In the back of my mind, I didn't think too much of it. When I went to my advisor today to seek help (after finally quitting my job completely since I couldn't sustain the workload,) she let me in on the enormity of my mistake. Late assignments WILL NOT be accepted. That's right folks. Little did I know this and it would be safe to say I would not knowingly have allowed this to happen.
I don't even know where I really stand right now. Luckily my advisor is also head tutor of one of my classes and she has given me a weeks extension on an assignment I have for her. But the rest? Apparently it may be too late to do anything about it. And its nearing exam time as well.
I can't even feel tired I am that wired about it and I am supposed to be going to Dublin for one of my closest friends engagement party tomorrow/later today. Supposed to be a happy weekend break. I may have to cancel it. I definitely don't have the time to go anywhere now but how can I call her up and cancel now? How could I have been so stupid as to allow a job in a supermarket take away from my degree like this???
My only hope is meeting with every tutor and begging the 'mature-student-working-fulltime-crazy-position-please-understand' angle.
I wonder if it will work? And if so, how many all nighters can I expect of my body to get ready for exams AND assignments?
In this economic climate I was happy to take a job offered to me in what I can only call 'Dumb Stores'. Not only did this job provide me with the worst working experience I was ever to encounter, it also, it seems has almost robbed me of my first semester and valuable ECTS that I cannot now submit for. My 'part time' job gave me working hours straight after college til 11pm or thereabouts 5 or 6 nights a week. Asking for a reduction in these hours led me to be chastised about my availability but they 'would see what they could do'. The rota was never altered and I was continually given full time, if not, more than fulltime hours. I need to work to support myself through college but now I have missed deadlines coming out my ears. In the back of my mind, I didn't think too much of it. When I went to my advisor today to seek help (after finally quitting my job completely since I couldn't sustain the workload,) she let me in on the enormity of my mistake. Late assignments WILL NOT be accepted. That's right folks. Little did I know this and it would be safe to say I would not knowingly have allowed this to happen.
I don't even know where I really stand right now. Luckily my advisor is also head tutor of one of my classes and she has given me a weeks extension on an assignment I have for her. But the rest? Apparently it may be too late to do anything about it. And its nearing exam time as well.
I can't even feel tired I am that wired about it and I am supposed to be going to Dublin for one of my closest friends engagement party tomorrow/later today. Supposed to be a happy weekend break. I may have to cancel it. I definitely don't have the time to go anywhere now but how can I call her up and cancel now? How could I have been so stupid as to allow a job in a supermarket take away from my degree like this???
My only hope is meeting with every tutor and begging the 'mature-student-working-fulltime-crazy-position-please-understand' angle.
I wonder if it will work? And if so, how many all nighters can I expect of my body to get ready for exams AND assignments?