Quick school update

Before I die at the end of the week from my stress, I wanted to update really quickly.

GP is getting stressful the closer we get to the presentation. The presentation has been created in its simplest form and will be beautified over the next 1.5 weeks. The paper itself has taken a slightly back seat till the presentation is over because we are going to need to take into account their critiques and see if we need to update the paper in some way anyway. February 18th will be coming very quickly for the draft due date. I also realized that March 18th (the Friday of finals week and the week before Spring Break) will be dedicated to finalizing the paper. We have to all sign the final paper and that's due March 18th.  So I have to be back on the 18th to sign it or just not leave. Oh well. I will be finished the week before finals week, but not quite finished.

My other classes are going okay. I've got a lot of minor assignments to turn in starting February 1st and a lot of them are after the defense presentation. Which means...the weekend after the defense I will be reading and writing a TON. I'm trying to preread the assignments due that week, but it's just not happening. I'm so swamped in reading for my environmental institutions class that I can't fit in other reading.

Lastly, this week starts my international law class. I was tempted to drop it this past week because it's 3 hours of extra class a day (M- F) and the reading assignment is ridiculous. I have 330 pages of school reading to do for this week and almost 300 of it is just for international law. Did I also tell you that 300 pages is spread out among THREE days? What happened to reading for Thurs and Fri? Anyway, I'm up to my eyeballs in legal stuff since I have to do a case brief for my coastal zone law class. I'm sure if I was a lawyer, briefing a case would go much quicker. Anyway, international law this week might just kill me. Because of the 3 extra hours, I have a little more than 4 hours of class everyday, but with the way my schedule works...I'm just staying on campus all day Tues and Wed and maybe Thurs if my meetings go too long. So Tues I'll be at Bren from 10am to 7:15pm. Wed I'll be on campus from 10am to 6:45pm. Joy. I'm going to have to pack a ton of food and drink to sustain me that long. LoL

Then, of course, next, next week is our defense and we are practicing in 1414 on Monday and to the group on Wednesday and then will be practicing on our own. This Wednesday we're supposed to do a run through of the presentation, which will be super informal since I won't have anything memorized or remotely solidified in my head by then. We only tonight put the presentation together and I don't have time to really work on it between now and Wednesday morning. Oh well. I'm sure Arturo will understand.

Anyway, my stress level is incredibly high and I just keep thinking of all the stuff I have due in my other classes after the week after defenses (3 papers and 2 presentations). I really don't feel like I'll be able to breath till March 1st. Course, I have 2 group papers in classes too....so I have to find time to meet for those too. Ugh. I really am disliking group things right now. Too many right now.

*sigh* Well, I need to go. I want a draft of my case brief finished tonight (due Tues) and I still have 60 pages of international law reading to do. I'm reading, right now, all about treaties.