T-36 Hours (Whine)

I still don't really feel like this is the last week of classes. This whole week has been one big blur of work, stress, meetings, and work. Taking OS was such an abysmal idea in some ways - the spending time with friends and having time to do my other work well ways - and in some ways it was a really useful experience. Regardless of the fact that I kept up with my other classes all semester and met the deadlines, they all also had a substantial amount of work due this week, including OS, and I'm still not through it all. I still have two OS assignments left to do, in addition to the project we turned in last night that ate up most of my time this week. Thankfully the other pieces are just a book report and a written homework assignment. One of my professors lost one of my papers I turned in earlier in the semester (we had to have done 7 of them, and he only has records of my doing 6), so I have to write another one here shortly. I have a term paper due, and a collection of other papers for another class. I haven't been keeping up with my research as much as I absolutely should have, but I still managed to get a fair amount done, and finished making the poster for my presentation next week. I've been so busy that this week feels like just another week of my undergraduate career - I feel like it's going to end so abruptly that I'm going to be really thrown off. Maybe that's a good thing, I don't know - maybe it's not productive to have a bunch of time to dwell on the fact that things are about to change, in a big way.

Going into this semester, I didn't really see the use of taking an "easy semester" - I wanted to be able to say that I made the most of every semester I had here. I'm not willing to say that I regret taking OS, but I do have a much better perspective about how taking a lighter course load can be a really good idea in one's last semester.

I feel like I've been having nightmares a lot recently, and it's getting kind of old. The one last night was disturbing enough that I don't really feel comfortable writing it down. The good news about having bad dreams is that at least I'm getting sleep, even if it doesn't feel like nearly enough.