So, I thought I'd just share some of my stress, coz ya know that's fun. right? besides it's my blog so I can put whatever I want up here, right? right? *crickets chirp*.
Basically I'm a second year law/criminology student. I chose the degree on the spur the moment, mainly because it sounded cool. I knew it would be hard and made an agreement with my parents so I'd have their support for the next five years and then slowly begin repaying them after that. However I conveniently forgot that my uni of choice regularly over-enrolls students then has to desperately start dropping students. As my lecturer put it they have to separate the wheat from the chaff. So here's me fresh out of high school completely out of my depth doing a degree with the majority of my classmates being thirty years older than me. Can you say steep learning curve?
So my first year I did amazingly well all things considering. I couldn't stand college and was desperate to move out. Then cue figurative explosions at home and I had the choice of remaining at college or coming home. By that time I was literally quite ill from the college food and anemic to boot. So I came home and began studying via distance. My second year options were also severely limited and I ended up enrolled in third and forth year subjects. My grades dropped dramatically. I'm still passing (thank god) but only just.
So I've only received one assessment back so far for this semester and at 60% if I can't get my grades up bye-bye law degree. So cavies are my current destressor but even so stress levels are reaching the upper limits. We've got family visiting and I'm expected to be entertaining them, but I also have major assessments too (uni holidays do not equal actual holidays). I was also intending to finish my Medical Reference Guide for Guinea Pigs but god knows when I'll get to that.
Sooo I guess I should stop ranting and get back to work huh? My current assessment is for anthropology. I have most of a human skeleton (yes a real skeleton) that I'm meant to doing a report on and discovering the persons age, sex, stature, health and ethnicity. After that I need to write a drug treatment program for my Indigenous studies class, then create a survey for survey methods oh and after that I need to somehow fit in my regular university reading which equates to 500-800 pages a week, as well as the podcasted lectures.
I'd much rather be working on my Health Guide....
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