#term projects

Gradschool semester break-down

Weeks 1-5: Bit of writing each week. Manageable.

Weeks 6: Hey, you should think about that term paper. But not too much, it’s a long way off.

Weeks 7-9: Lots of department obligations. Social life is minimal.

Week 10: Psych! Time to freak out about your papers.

Week 11: What is sleep??? My blood is breakfast tea and soda.

Week 12-13: Presentations and deadlines leave you so stressed you have found zen.

Week 14: Promptly forget 50% of what was learned in seminar. Slightly worried about grades. No longer care though.

I am at week 11. Where are you, mates?

Five hours later and I have finally, finally, finally finished editing footnotes and bibliography for my two term papers.

Ten hours later and I am finally done with formatting/citation-ing my two term papers. It only took twice as long because RefWorks can’t even do its job right and I had to edit the bibliography entries myself.

So a cohort came into the grad lounge to talk with me because our term paper topics were apparently very similar and the professor left us to decide what to do.

Cohort: I just want to make sure that we’re not overlapping too much.

Me: Is your paper about cannibals and monsters?

Cohort: ...No?

Me after transcribing 10 seconds of audio:

Me: I should pound out this paper that’s due this week and very important to my grade

How productive was I today? On a scale of 1 to 10: