You know you're a senior when...
Do you want to know what's an amazing feeling? When you know something is stressing you out to the max and you step back, realize the bigger picture and decide to just let go of the thing and the stress along with it.
One month ago, I backed out of a play audition like an hour beforehand because the idea of what monologue to pick and how I would present it in 2 contrasting styles and the potential dent to my pride if I wasn't cast was stressing me out way more than I thought it should have been. As soon as I realized that crossing off my name would make me infinitely happier than cramming a monologue into my head and going through with that crap, I immediately knew what I had to do.
I have this assignment for Psych 36 that was due at 8:30am Tues. It is now 1:07am Wed and I haven't even done half of it, despite that I've got 8 hand-written pages back to back with numbers up the wazoo. My condescending professor gave us this humongous assignment almost totally consisting of hand-written ANOVAS. For you non-Psych majors, it's testing whether variables significantly effect eachother, and involves doing tens of subtractions and squares of those differences, and sums of those squares, and then averages of the sums of squares ... times a lot. I think doing it once or twice by hand is good so you know what a blessing the computer software SPSS is. AND, we did that, back in Psych 31, a prerequisite. Maybe this new prof doesn't know this. Anyways, we won't need to do ANOVAS by hand on the test in 2 weeks, but our homework, which no one finished, involved nothing but that. In class I saw a lot of people hand in homework, but what I gather from conversations is that most people started the first half and just stopped. I thought I could finish it if I kept working on it tonight so I brought it home and will hand it in tomorrow. It was the only thing I worked on today (okay, so I watched a little t.v. and ate a dinner) but dude, I haven't even made a dent!
And I was plugging away tedious things into my calculator thinking that if I at least complete more than my fellow classmates maybe...thenI realize, this homework assignment is a mere 5% of my grade but the stress it's causing me is decreasing my happiness 1000% and I need to just hand in what I've done and pray for a B for Effort. Scott's away message today said that we only have 19 days left of college. 19! And I'm worrying over my last Psychology homework assignment? Pshah. I don't think so! I am now officially done with Chapters 11-14...uh, until I cram for the test.
One month ago, I backed out of a play audition like an hour beforehand because the idea of what monologue to pick and how I would present it in 2 contrasting styles and the potential dent to my pride if I wasn't cast was stressing me out way more than I thought it should have been. As soon as I realized that crossing off my name would make me infinitely happier than cramming a monologue into my head and going through with that crap, I immediately knew what I had to do.
I have this assignment for Psych 36 that was due at 8:30am Tues. It is now 1:07am Wed and I haven't even done half of it, despite that I've got 8 hand-written pages back to back with numbers up the wazoo. My condescending professor gave us this humongous assignment almost totally consisting of hand-written ANOVAS. For you non-Psych majors, it's testing whether variables significantly effect eachother, and involves doing tens of subtractions and squares of those differences, and sums of those squares, and then averages of the sums of squares ... times a lot. I think doing it once or twice by hand is good so you know what a blessing the computer software SPSS is. AND, we did that, back in Psych 31, a prerequisite. Maybe this new prof doesn't know this. Anyways, we won't need to do ANOVAS by hand on the test in 2 weeks, but our homework, which no one finished, involved nothing but that. In class I saw a lot of people hand in homework, but what I gather from conversations is that most people started the first half and just stopped. I thought I could finish it if I kept working on it tonight so I brought it home and will hand it in tomorrow. It was the only thing I worked on today (okay, so I watched a little t.v. and ate a dinner) but dude, I haven't even made a dent!
And I was plugging away tedious things into my calculator thinking that if I at least complete more than my fellow classmates maybe...thenI realize, this homework assignment is a mere 5% of my grade but the stress it's causing me is decreasing my happiness 1000% and I need to just hand in what I've done and pray for a B for Effort. Scott's away message today said that we only have 19 days left of college. 19! And I'm worrying over my last Psychology homework assignment? Pshah. I don't think so! I am now officially done with Chapters 11-14...uh, until I cram for the test.