not humanly possible
is it this hard for everyone??!?? my workload is not humanly possible. i am taking six classes, but 18 units shouldn't be this much work, especially since 1 class is a one unit lab and the other is The Science of Cooking which has no homework.
aside from not having time to do ANY reading for any of my 6 classes, i have:
3 problem sets a week (for Adv. Genetics, Physical Chem, and Physics 23) each taking an average of 6 hours to complete. these are due Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday. thus immediately after coming back from class i eat dinner and begin a problem set on those days that takes me past 1 AM that night.
plus i have articles to read every week to prepare for Genetics discussion sections on random Tuesdays and Thursdays.
plus I have one 3 hour lab writeup for my physics lab (Physics 24) due every wednesday.
plus my thursdays and fridays are filled with class and the rest of the day until 6 PM with working at my lab (which is itself a 3 unit class) so i don't get a break there.
i'm catatonic by Friday and though i go to sleep early most Fridays now (how sad) I still sleep until like 4 PM on Saturdays because of my massive accumulated sleep debt. by then i go to the gym or do stuff like spend 3 hours on the phone sorting out Vegetarian Meals on Iberia etc. and it's time for dinner, then time for going out (my 1 time a week i can go out). then i sleep until like 3 on Sunday and must do house jobs or get a start on my weekly triumvirate of problem sets. then on Monday I usually exhaustedly sleep from like 2 until 6, which is dinner, then begin feverish problemsetting until thursday and the cycle starts again.
oh PS add in my house job this quarter, which is baking fresh bread for my dorm at midnight every wednesday and takes like 3 hours. i live in a co-op, so failure is not an option unless i want to get kicked out of stanford housing.
so basically i have only 1 night a week of fun and no time to do anything else, ever.
so anyway, when MEAN GENETICS PROFESSORS make problem sets, article readings, and midterms all due on weird days-we-don't-have-class that also happen to be the same day as my physical chemistry midterm (like tomorrow at 1 PM), that results in my spending 9 hours on work, and going to sleep at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, to sleep for 4 hours (which hardly even counts as sleep) without even having STARTED studying my stupid chem135 notes for my midterm. i now must pray that i can study 4 weeks worth of material during the 45 minutes i have to eat my lunch.
i kind of hate my life.
6 more weeks.
think of Spain. must. think. of. Spain.
boutique hotels, rented Ferarri, hot tan uncut penises wiggling out of box-cut speedos to and fro. beachy days and Ministry of Sound. sleek MD-80s and adderalled flight attendants. sangria and melanoma. all seen though J.Lo sunglasses.
it will all be worth it and I will have absolutely no guilt.
aside from not having time to do ANY reading for any of my 6 classes, i have:
3 problem sets a week (for Adv. Genetics, Physical Chem, and Physics 23) each taking an average of 6 hours to complete. these are due Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday. thus immediately after coming back from class i eat dinner and begin a problem set on those days that takes me past 1 AM that night.
plus i have articles to read every week to prepare for Genetics discussion sections on random Tuesdays and Thursdays.
plus I have one 3 hour lab writeup for my physics lab (Physics 24) due every wednesday.
plus my thursdays and fridays are filled with class and the rest of the day until 6 PM with working at my lab (which is itself a 3 unit class) so i don't get a break there.
i'm catatonic by Friday and though i go to sleep early most Fridays now (how sad) I still sleep until like 4 PM on Saturdays because of my massive accumulated sleep debt. by then i go to the gym or do stuff like spend 3 hours on the phone sorting out Vegetarian Meals on Iberia etc. and it's time for dinner, then time for going out (my 1 time a week i can go out). then i sleep until like 3 on Sunday and must do house jobs or get a start on my weekly triumvirate of problem sets. then on Monday I usually exhaustedly sleep from like 2 until 6, which is dinner, then begin feverish problemsetting until thursday and the cycle starts again.
oh PS add in my house job this quarter, which is baking fresh bread for my dorm at midnight every wednesday and takes like 3 hours. i live in a co-op, so failure is not an option unless i want to get kicked out of stanford housing.
so basically i have only 1 night a week of fun and no time to do anything else, ever.
so anyway, when MEAN GENETICS PROFESSORS make problem sets, article readings, and midterms all due on weird days-we-don't-have-class that also happen to be the same day as my physical chemistry midterm (like tomorrow at 1 PM), that results in my spending 9 hours on work, and going to sleep at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, to sleep for 4 hours (which hardly even counts as sleep) without even having STARTED studying my stupid chem135 notes for my midterm. i now must pray that i can study 4 weeks worth of material during the 45 minutes i have to eat my lunch.
i kind of hate my life.
6 more weeks.
think of Spain. must. think. of. Spain.
boutique hotels, rented Ferarri, hot tan uncut penises wiggling out of box-cut speedos to and fro. beachy days and Ministry of Sound. sleek MD-80s and adderalled flight attendants. sangria and melanoma. all seen though J.Lo sunglasses.
it will all be worth it and I will have absolutely no guilt.