I want to cry.
4 pm Thursday.
25 hours to submit a thesis draft--doesn't have to be complete--to the COS department. Realistically I can spend 17 of these max working.
14 more hours until I have to get up and get ready for regionals. 3 of those are Houseparties, 5 sleep, 6 work?
Suppose I play only 2 games of regionals, then come back and shower and eat and go somewhere to work. 4 hours to work until Houseparties again. In a perfect world I can stay out until midnight; I have to be around 11-11:45 for archsing anyway. Want to go to the wind ensemble concert too; maybe I can stick an hour of work in the middle there somewhere.
Suppose I sleep for 5 hours Saturday night and don't play at regionals on Sunday. And don't go to lawnparties, just brunch. That gives me 29 hours from leaving my room in the morning to when I have to stop working on my thesis. But 2.5 hours are wind ensemble rehearsal. 2 hours cumulative eating. 4.5 hours sleeping/otherwise unfocused (at minimum)? That leaves 20 hours to work.
Total thesis hours remaining = 47 hours. at my current productivity level, that is not so good. This information chapter might get scrapped. It'll probably take 10 hours all by itself.
Oh, and immediately following turning in, 24 hours to do my entire COS final project. then I have to present it. Then crash? at some point there will be Wildcats rehearsal maybe? I don't know. Then I'll have 5-6 days to make my thesis presentation and do my entire Russian paper. I haven't even finished rereading the Brothers Karamazov in English, and then I have to pick a passage and a topic and read the passage in Russian and make sure the topic is good and write the paper and get it edited and revise it and turn it in. And there's a wind ensemble concert, and the fantasy arch, and I'll need to do more biophysics homework problems too and those take a long time.
But I have full days to do these things. But I work so slow! And don't focus! And haven't been able to fix this despite much trying.
How do I get myself into these situations?
You've got no one to blame for your unhappiness
You got yourself into your own mess
You've got to get yourself together
You got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it
25 hours to submit a thesis draft--doesn't have to be complete--to the COS department. Realistically I can spend 17 of these max working.
14 more hours until I have to get up and get ready for regionals. 3 of those are Houseparties, 5 sleep, 6 work?
Suppose I play only 2 games of regionals, then come back and shower and eat and go somewhere to work. 4 hours to work until Houseparties again. In a perfect world I can stay out until midnight; I have to be around 11-11:45 for archsing anyway. Want to go to the wind ensemble concert too; maybe I can stick an hour of work in the middle there somewhere.
Suppose I sleep for 5 hours Saturday night and don't play at regionals on Sunday. And don't go to lawnparties, just brunch. That gives me 29 hours from leaving my room in the morning to when I have to stop working on my thesis. But 2.5 hours are wind ensemble rehearsal. 2 hours cumulative eating. 4.5 hours sleeping/otherwise unfocused (at minimum)? That leaves 20 hours to work.
Total thesis hours remaining = 47 hours. at my current productivity level, that is not so good. This information chapter might get scrapped. It'll probably take 10 hours all by itself.
Oh, and immediately following turning in, 24 hours to do my entire COS final project. then I have to present it. Then crash? at some point there will be Wildcats rehearsal maybe? I don't know. Then I'll have 5-6 days to make my thesis presentation and do my entire Russian paper. I haven't even finished rereading the Brothers Karamazov in English, and then I have to pick a passage and a topic and read the passage in Russian and make sure the topic is good and write the paper and get it edited and revise it and turn it in. And there's a wind ensemble concert, and the fantasy arch, and I'll need to do more biophysics homework problems too and those take a long time.
But I have full days to do these things. But I work so slow! And don't focus! And haven't been able to fix this despite much trying.
How do I get myself into these situations?
You've got no one to blame for your unhappiness
You got yourself into your own mess
You've got to get yourself together
You got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it