Confessions of A Working Girl

As the end of my last semester in college approaches, I should probably feel a mix of things. Instead, all I feel is that I wish the semester would be over faster. There's also a little regret, that I haven't tried my hardest in everything. A little of that is because that's how I've always worked in school. But a large part of it, this semester, is because of one class, and the group project for that class.

My group has met for a total of 72 hours or so. That doesn't count the hours we spent on our own. That doesn't count the hours in class, or in the lab for the class. Adding up the hours spent in class and lab...that's only 47. So we've spent almost double the time outside the class working on this project as we've spent in that class. And we're set to spend another five hours today, and more on friday, saturday and sunday. By the end of this project, we will have spent more than double the amount of class time working on the project for this class. Is it any wonder that everyone in class, not just my group, is stressed out adn doing poorly in all other classes? I literally have no time to do work for any of my other classes during the day...and when I stay up late to try to do it, I pretty much fall asleep in class the next day.

True, the beginning of the semester we didn't spend as many hours on the project...but that's because the teacher never gave specific instructions and format rules. And she refuses to. So we got a D on the midterm, which was to hand in what we had of the project so far. The highest group grade in class was a C. My group is just hoping to end the semester with such a good grade as that! And I'm worried about failing all my other classes. And finances. Those are always a big worry.

I know I can't escape financial issues, and I will miss everyone, but on the whole, I can't wait to go back to Japan, whenever that will be...

On the bright side, I just got an email saying that my writing folder earned a pass with distinction grade. Schoolwise, that's been the only bright spot recently.

On top of everything, the more work we do on this project, the more I hate it. I never thought that there would be a class that would make me hate school... plus, because I had to leave work early to meet with my group so we could work on this project, I missed decorating the christmas tree at the library.  T_T