February 21, 2003
The Work Week Starts on Friday
Weeeew! It's finally Friday again! Not that the weekend is something for me to look forward to. Here are just a few things I have to do for Monday/Tuesday:
Write 1600 words for History 155
Read two books of 200 pages each for History 300
Memorize the entire periodic table (except the inner transition metals) and answer about thirty questions from two chapters of reading for chemistry.
Read an essay for English
Yeah... Damn... Last semester I took 13 credits (four three-credit classes and one one-credit class) and it was horribly easy. This semester I'm taking 16 credits (five three-credit classes and one one-credit class) and it's horrible hell!
Well, I'm going to hit the shower now, which is always fun as well. We have three showers. Two of them don't get hot enough for me and have a real wimpy water pressure. If you turn the third one on it pumps water out like a fire hose, pushing the inner curtain all the way to the outer curtain. If you stand in the path of the water for about a minute you come out of the shower red as hell! I always use it anyway, because it gets hot and wakes me up.
February 20, 2003
36 Hours of Hell
Wow, this semester has been absolute hell! Since I neither have the time or the ambition to describe everything I've done since I got back to college, I'll just give you an example by using last Sunday night and Monday:
Sunday:
1 pm: I realize that I still have four philosophy essays to read, upon which I have to write three pages each on them. I begin writing.
6 pm: I go eat dinner with my friends.
7 pm: Distractions prevent me from writing too much.
9 pm: I finally get back into the full swing of things, and try to understand Plato. I fail.
Monday:
1:40 am: Dave goes to bed.
2:30 am: I finish my first essay.
5:30 am: I finish my second essay.
8:30 am: I finish my third essay. I begin researching for my HIS 155 homework.
9:00 am: I realize I'm pretty damn screwed because there are no book reviews on the book I chose to read for HIS 155. My assignment was to find two book reviews on the book I chose.
9:15 am: I hit the shower and the sink.
9:45 am: I sit back down and my mind, which is somehow still semi-awake thanks to the ten cups of coffee consumed during the past twelve hours, struggles to write some more philosophy.
10:15 am: I realize that I have signed up to give blood in half-an-hour.
10:25 am: I leave for Strebel to give blood.
10:45 am: Tired as I am, I am interrogated on my history to help determine how good my blood is. I have been up for 24 hours.
11:00 am: I lye down on a makeshift bed and have a pint (about half-a-liter) of blood seep out of me.
11:10 am: I am told to slowly get up and am ordered to drink two bags of Capri-Sun and eat some of the goodies provided.
11:20 am: I make my way back to my room. Upon arriving at my room I try to write more philosophy, but my caffeine-shot-up, blood drained body won't co-operate. My head random falls towards my book as it tries to go to sleep.
12:20 am: I leave for History 155, in which I sadly report my lack of book reviews, which the professor seems to accept.
1:20 pm: My professor ends class early, and I walk to Strebel to do some last-minute typing. However, the lab there is jam-packed, mostly by people AIMing, even video chatting, which is a joke on our over-loaded T1 lines. I run into my friends and decide that I better eat some lunch with them.
2:00 pm: Philosophy begins and I sit there and try to stay awake. At the end of class I turn in what I have.
3:10 pm: Class is over and I return to my room and fall into bed. I get my first sleep in over 28 hours.
8:00 pm: I awake, cook something in the microwave, and begin typing my English essay.
10:30 pm: I decide I need to catch up on sleep at all costs. I go to sleep. Dave pulls an all-nighter this night!
February 06, 2003
Stress + Lots of Sleep = Still Tired
Damn, I've had another incredibly long day. This damn stress is killing me. Well actually it's not that bad, but I'm just constantly tired although I'm getting enough sleep.
February 05, 2003
Long Day
Damn, yesterday I had such a long day. And that was after I was up reading and writing essays until 5:30 in the morning. Yeah, college stress has kicked in. Otherwise there's nothing really else to write about.
Oh, and the it's horribly cold and snowy out.
February 01, 2003
Still Have Time to Party
Gah, I haven't posted in like weeks! Whatever, I'm back at college. I got tons of classes but still manage to have time to party wildly. I can't wait to see the SU game tonight versus Pittsburgh. Weeeew!