College Stress Support Group
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So i have crammed 4 years of school into three and i am realizing why a bachlor's degree is meant to take 4 years! i have bitten off way more than i can chew (which i usually tend to do--becuase i like leading a busy life), but this time i am afraid that it is just too much and that i am in way over my head. i have to take the LSAT for law school is less than a month and i haven't started studying yet--i moved the test date to get extra parctice out of the Kaplan's prgram i am using to study, beacuse i didn't use it when i first got it and it was about to expire--it allowed me to retake the online couse--and i just checked it and they said they reenacted it, but it says that it expired---GRRR--frusterating--then i have a senior honors project due--haven't made much progress on that becuase i have been focused on the here and now school work--which is lots and lots--i am neglacting (they get done--just not in a timely fashion) my officer duties for an organization i am in--due to being overwhelmed--have yet to apply to law schools--my academic avisor left--and she saif i was set to graduate with what i was taking this semester + my internship next semester--then she left and i come to find out i am 2 credits shy of graduation--and the only solution is to do extra work with my honor's project, not to mention my parents breathing down my back about all of it---sry just had to vent--overwhelmed and don't know what to do...
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
Prioritize
If you are in over your head, and we can all get to that point. Something has to give. My senior year of college I had too much going on. And what gave way for me was applying to graduate school. I ended up taking a year off because I couldn't pull together applying to grad schools on time. Those applications were lowest priority for me because there was absolutely nothing that required me to go to grad school right away. And frankly, the year off was wonderful. I gained job experience which built my resume. And I earned some money which is really nice as I am now a broke grad student living off student loans.
That may not be the path you want to take. But think about immediacy and necessity and prioritize what you need to do. Maybe you need to be inactive in the organization you're in or give up you're officer position. And if you are ever asked in an interview (for school or job) it's not a bad thing. You know you're limits, you know you can handle a lot, but you also know when you need to take a step back.
Or... since it sounds like everything is getting done just not as perfectly or efficently as you'd like, maybe all you need is encouragement.
p.s. assuming law school is anything like a doctoral program... get use to always having something vital to do. Like I'm writing a paper... and all I can think is about how I should be preparing for my presentation. And the second I'm done with a midterm that just covered 26 chapters and took nearly 3 hours to finish... I don't get too take a breathe because I still have a project to do.