You know things are bad when you need a gaf support thread just to keep yourself focused on the task.
So the situation is that I need to have a 3000-4000 word paper done and turned in by the 20th. It is an argumentative essay for the class Thinking and Reasoning, which is a class I've been struggling with the entire semester. The original paper was due on the 13th, but the professor was kind enough to have given me an extension if I had done the rough draft on the 12th....I just turned in my rough draft about 8 hours ago. Yeah, when I have trouble with a class, the struggle isn't merely to get the work done right, but to get the work done at all. I don't know why that is, but I'll have to think about it when I have the luxury of time to do so.
Anyway, the rough draft, which was suppose to be 2500 words, ended up being 1500 due to not being sure what else to say as generally being tired since I've been up over 24 hours at that that point. Once I was done, I grabbed a quick lunch then headed to sleep, thinking I'd wake up much later and more rested, but here I am, a mere 6 hours later. And if the rest of the paper takes as much time as the first draft did, I'll most likely need the next whole day to do it. The problem is that sleep deprivation is starting to set in. Or rather, it has already set in, the 6 hours of sleep only remedied it slightly, and it's just going to get worse.
And I still haven't gotten my feedback from my professor back, but I can't wait for him due to the time critical nature of the project. I know, entirely my fault, I accept that....still, it sucks. I know I need to improve certain obvious aspects, such as the general writing, but I need to know if my general argument is sound or what he's looking for. I think it is and I think I've done enough research on the subject to have the argument make sense....but that's what I always think in this class before the professor explains how I misunderstood the topic slightly.
So why I'm making this topic is mostly to just to remind myself that I need to get it done and stop wasting time. Writing stuff out calms me down. And if someone is going to be kind enough to double check my paper once the real sleep deprivation sets in and I start hallucinating, that'd be cool too. But mostly, I just need to get my head on right, because despite the obvious fact that I am on such limited time, as I woke up, part of my brain was saying "Look, you have over 24 hours. Surely you can just go see the Godzilla movie and get it done in a timely manner." And I'm like "Shut up brain, and get this shit done. Then. and only then, Godzilla." And writing stuff out helps me do that.
So the situation is that I need to have a 3000-4000 word paper done and turned in by the 20th. It is an argumentative essay for the class Thinking and Reasoning, which is a class I've been struggling with the entire semester. The original paper was due on the 13th, but the professor was kind enough to have given me an extension if I had done the rough draft on the 12th....I just turned in my rough draft about 8 hours ago. Yeah, when I have trouble with a class, the struggle isn't merely to get the work done right, but to get the work done at all. I don't know why that is, but I'll have to think about it when I have the luxury of time to do so.
Anyway, the rough draft, which was suppose to be 2500 words, ended up being 1500 due to not being sure what else to say as generally being tired since I've been up over 24 hours at that that point. Once I was done, I grabbed a quick lunch then headed to sleep, thinking I'd wake up much later and more rested, but here I am, a mere 6 hours later. And if the rest of the paper takes as much time as the first draft did, I'll most likely need the next whole day to do it. The problem is that sleep deprivation is starting to set in. Or rather, it has already set in, the 6 hours of sleep only remedied it slightly, and it's just going to get worse.
And I still haven't gotten my feedback from my professor back, but I can't wait for him due to the time critical nature of the project. I know, entirely my fault, I accept that....still, it sucks. I know I need to improve certain obvious aspects, such as the general writing, but I need to know if my general argument is sound or what he's looking for. I think it is and I think I've done enough research on the subject to have the argument make sense....but that's what I always think in this class before the professor explains how I misunderstood the topic slightly.
So why I'm making this topic is mostly to just to remind myself that I need to get it done and stop wasting time. Writing stuff out calms me down. And if someone is going to be kind enough to double check my paper once the real sleep deprivation sets in and I start hallucinating, that'd be cool too. But mostly, I just need to get my head on right, because despite the obvious fact that I am on such limited time, as I woke up, part of my brain was saying "Look, you have over 24 hours. Surely you can just go see the Godzilla movie and get it done in a timely manner." And I'm like "Shut up brain, and get this shit done. Then. and only then, Godzilla." And writing stuff out helps me do that.
