Midterm madness, but that's not all

I don't know about you, but midterms snuck up on me quite quickly this semester. This post is being written in between two of those exams.

The only physical exams I'll be taking are for closely related courses taught by the same professor. I feel confident about how I did on the first one, and I'm not necessarily sweating the second one either. However, it's definitely a lot of information to remember and it's hard to be sure that you're going to be able to retain everything long enough.

The fact that the tests are 100% essay based makes it just that much harder, especially on my ever-so delicate wrists that have become so accustomed to typing anything and everything.

If that were the end of the madness, I'd have little to worry about.

But wait, there's more:

As the Co-Editor-In-Chief of the 1851 Chronicle, it's always exciting to see a new issue of the paper come out. But, it doesn't happen without a fair share of challenges. There's plenty of reading, re-reading and more reading after that to be done before it can go to print, and even then, mistakes still happen.

That's why I'll be on campus for about 14 hours today, worrying about tests, work, and getting close to wrapping up the paper.

It's fun, exciting work for the most part but that doesn't mean I'm not looking forward to next week, especially now that the two research papers I have (for those same history courses I'm taking exams for today) have been pushed back a week.

What gets me through with such a heavy load? It's nothing more than a healthy balance of procrastination and hard work. There's nothing wrong with pushing studying back an hour to play a game of MVP Baseball 2005, or to browse Facebook. But I've learned that these things, while they technically do get in the way of getting things done, can actually be beneficial when crunch time comes.

How's your week been?