Spring is here. That means many things, I know. One, it's getting close to my birthday! Two, the weather's getting better. Three, the college Ultimate season really heats up. Four, school is winding down.
That last one seems to have hit me hard. I just lack any sort of motivation these days. When the weather starts to get better, I just can't help but daydreaming about late summer afternoons, shirt, shorts, birkenstocks, aviators, hat, watching Ultimate. And perhaps some beach volleyball, because that sounds like the shit. I also can't help but think about the fact that I have just over three more weeks of classes left, and how that will be gone in no time. So I am lazy. My thought process on homework as of recent:
1) I should probably do that bio reading
2) But it won't hurt if I do it later. Let's watch that basketball game
3) I should probably do that reading before I go to bed so that I understand lecture tomorrow morning
4) Fuck it, let's go to bed
5) I didn't understand the lecture at all. Maybe I should read the book
6) How about not, I'll just read up before midterm/final. At least I went to lecture
7) I have a huge midterm tomorrow, I should really read that stuff in the book I swore to read many times over
8) Meh, it's probably not going to be on the exam
7 and 8 haven't actually happened yet, because I haven't had a midterm in a few weeks. I hope it won't happen. When I do subject myself to reading, I skim at least half the time. But my thinking is, at least I go to lecture! I was talking to my friend Edward the other day (he is also a premed, and plays Ultimate, and is awesome). He said he had skipped his last three classes, which gave me great comfort. Later that day I talked to another friend who mentioned that he knows some people at Penn with 4.0s, who took more courses than I did fall semester. And he also mentioned another friend at MIT who thought his classes there were easier than those at his high school. I got really freaked out by that.
But these days I am slacking off!!!!! I probably do an average of one hour of work per day. Last semester I probably averaged about 2.5 or 3. I don't know why/how. I don't know if it's because my classes are easier, or what. But I think that might be the general attitude here, because my stats professor cancelled two future quizzes because of Passover on one Friday and a big Spring Fling concert on another, with Ludacris, Gym Class Heroes, and OK Go (he then proceeded to tell his that the reason for that was that he had had a dream recently about Ludacris and diet coke). Yeah, sweet, I know.
And I'm also just bumbling along in life in general. Tomorrow I'm going to have to buy a new printer, I recently took a tumble while wiping off dust on my shelves (which are up high), and I must have landed on my printer/scanner. When I couldn't print anything, I looked at the scanner thing and the glass was all shattered. And before that I had accidentally sent a letter without a stamp (unless I just forgot and had actually put a stamp on it). I have to rewrite that... ...
But it'll all be over soon, just one and a half more months...
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Wait, do you have three weeks or one and a half months left?
Anyway, I also have no motivation. Bleh. At least I'm somewhat motivated about ultimate. Mostly I'm motivated about summer though. I'll probably be lucky to get higher than a B- in chemistry. =(
Bummer. I'm looking at a grim B/B- in history, which I had previously thought one of my best/favorite subjects.
3-4 weeks of classes, one-and-a-half months if you include dead week and finals.
Oh I see. We don't have dead week. You lucky... leprechaun. (?)
ha. i am also looking at that lucky B-. it's not like my classes are hard, but stupid me forgets about assigments, gets the due date wrong, doesn't study well for a test.... and.. i'm not motivated to try to right myself in these areas.
it sounds like you get out of class right around the same time i do! my last final and last day of school is the 15th. i think when we get home we should take that next weekend, the 17th, 18th, go camping and freaking chill and have a good time. huh? huh? what say you??? i ca not WAIT for summer. i can escape!!! (kind of)
Damn that B-
I can't say for sure if that weekend is free. If we make nationals that's a no.
But otherwise, there is going to be a lot of chillin done.
Jay,
In your #4 you said "let's go to bed" which if I'm not mistaken is a contraction of let us... as in plural.
Who are you going to bed with and why haven't we heard anything about it.
Or is this a multiple personality type thing. Where your slacker self and your good student self are duking it out in a very fight club-esque sort of way, and the slacker self (or perhaps just tired self) wins out.
Either way you shouldn't feel bad about it because...
1)if you are going to bed with someone, well hell your going to bed with someone, and I've heard that that is a lot more fun that bio reading. Of course I wouldn't know because I'm socially awkward and won't find out until I'm 40. In which case they will make a movie about me and hopefully I can make some money off it. Also, it is in it's own way the study of biology is it not. Thats what Bender always said. and...
2)if two halves of your psyche are battling it out fight club-esque style, your bound to be exhausted afterward and sleep really would be necessary for adequate functioning in class the next day.
OMG. i just can't get past the "fight club in bed" thing. WEIRD!!!!
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