Well, my first assignment has been handed in. I'm still hyped on caffeine and a total lack of nutritious food in the last couple of days. Very little sleep due to stress probably isn't helping matters any
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Yeah, the whole liking the past thing was going to make this a somewhat likely result wasn't it. Still, I would imagine you would have no problems toting a pair of pistol round with you to offer a little stress relief.
Overall are things going ok? Sounds like you have had quite a lot of work to do already. I'm still waiting for a go ahead on my first essay. I handed in the framework for it last week.
Any how, best go. Got to look enthusiastic tomorrow, even if I taught my frst full class today and I'm somewhat exhausted through all the work.
Lots and lots of work lately, and all of it included in our final grades, which makes it very scary. On the other hand, at least the final grades are not solely dependent on an exam! But as I mentioned to my sister, in all practicality, this only means that the same amount of stress per exam is applied to every single piece of coursework. So I'm going to be shattered in three weeks' time. Sigh.
Hope that your first essay goes well! How did the teaching go?
I tended to find Exam stress and Coursework stress to be wholy different. Still they are both as evil as one another and I hope that you aren't stressing out too much about it all. The only thing I can suggest is make sure you do have a day during the weekend/week just for yourself, don't let yourself end up working 7 days a week or you will end up burning out
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This is actually the first time since I was fourteen that coursework has counted in my final grades, so I'm feeling my way through the stress. It's not pretty.;-) And I'm trying to keep Saturdays as my day off; you're right in that it's absolutely necessary to just focus on not work for a while.
It sounds like you need some time off as well - it's about this period in term when everything seems to come down like a tonne of bricks. I'm sorry you had a bad day - same thing has happened to me on occasion, that I've been really castigated for something insignificant, and it always leaves me feeling crappy and self-doubting. And being told to "move on" doesn't help!
Hope you find some way of relaxing soon. I managed to find some balance by dancing it all away last night - was the New Scotland beginners' dance: four hours non-stop dancing and yelling. Exhausted but happy today! *hugs*
A mere 6 more weeks and then I get a couple of weeks off. I'll have a lot of work to do during that time, but at least there is a break coming along and that is quite nice in a way.
Yeah, it would be nice to go dancing again. I haven't been for quite a long while now (at least since the end of last year I would imagine), and there isn't anything like that around here at all. I just seem to remember feeling a lot better, no matter what my week was like, if I went out to the Ceilidhs in Sheffield.
Suppose the biggest issue at the moment to get past is wondering if this is the right thing for me to be doing. Self-doubt is something I have had a lot of recently, and so I'm just trying my best at the moment. Get this feeling though that I'm not doing enough, but that I'm not really able to do any more anyway.
And dancing always makes me feel better, although some kinds more than others. Scottish is, unfortunately, one of the least cathartic forms of dancing for me (not enough feeling the music or screaming), but with live music, all that changes. *beams*
I know the feeling, about not doing enough - we have one lecturer who managed to get three people in my tutorial crying yesterday because he seems to think we should all be doing more. Luckily, I have thicker skin than them, and also a more appropriate level of respect for my own health. *sends good thoughts your way*
Overall are things going ok? Sounds like you have had quite a lot of work to do already. I'm still waiting for a go ahead on my first essay. I handed in the framework for it last week.
Any how, best go. Got to look enthusiastic tomorrow, even if I taught my frst full class today and I'm somewhat exhausted through all the work.
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Lots and lots of work lately, and all of it included in our final grades, which makes it very scary. On the other hand, at least the final grades are not solely dependent on an exam! But as I mentioned to my sister, in all practicality, this only means that the same amount of stress per exam is applied to every single piece of coursework. So I'm going to be shattered in three weeks' time. Sigh.
Hope that your first essay goes well! How did the teaching go?
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It sounds like you need some time off as well - it's about this period in term when everything seems to come down like a tonne of bricks. I'm sorry you had a bad day - same thing has happened to me on occasion, that I've been really castigated for something insignificant, and it always leaves me feeling crappy and self-doubting. And being told to "move on" doesn't help!
Hope you find some way of relaxing soon. I managed to find some balance by dancing it all away last night - was the New Scotland beginners' dance: four hours non-stop dancing and yelling. Exhausted but happy today! *hugs*
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Yeah, it would be nice to go dancing again. I haven't been for quite a long while now (at least since the end of last year I would imagine), and there isn't anything like that around here at all. I just seem to remember feeling a lot better, no matter what my week was like, if I went out to the Ceilidhs in Sheffield.
Suppose the biggest issue at the moment to get past is wondering if this is the right thing for me to be doing. Self-doubt is something I have had a lot of recently, and so I'm just trying my best at the moment. Get this feeling though that I'm not doing enough, but that I'm not really able to do any more anyway.
Ah well, as always I'll be alright in the end.
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And dancing always makes me feel better, although some kinds more than others. Scottish is, unfortunately, one of the least cathartic forms of dancing for me (not enough feeling the music or screaming), but with live music, all that changes. *beams*
I know the feeling, about not doing enough - we have one lecturer who managed to get three people in my tutorial crying yesterday because he seems to think we should all be doing more. Luckily, I have thicker skin than them, and also a more appropriate level of respect for my own health.
*sends good thoughts your way*
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