pull the ripcord the ship has lost its sail

freaking out is not something that falls in the description of who i am

 

BUT ...

the past 2 days i have really been stressing internally about this semester. not only is it 16 units of classes, but we have our "comps" (comprehensive exams) in April that cover everything we've learned since August of '09 and my icing on the cake is that this weekend I am in San Diego, in three weeks it's Boston, three weeks after that I'm in Sacramento, then Newport for a week, then San Diego, and it just keeps going. So to try to ease my mini panic attack I decided to email the head professor about my concerns like .. are there going to be any type of study sessions or reviews for the comps? If so is it possible to start sending out dates and times for those so that people who have no additional time (like myself) will be able to clear our schedules. If there are no study/review type sessions, would it be possible for me to make appointments with each of the professors last semester to go over my finals from last semester? Unfortunately it's been 48 hrs and no one has responded to my email ... and while yes I am freaking out quite a bit less, it'd be really great if someone could just stress out for me while I just finish school my own way. I'm a pretty smart person. I go to class, I take notes, I highlight the important and the mildly important. But for some reason this last semester I was probably the worlds worst test taker. Well, not the worlds, but I was constantly scoring 8 points lower than the class average on open-note, open-book, online exams, which means I'm obviously missing some major flags on what is important or how to interpret what an author means versus what a professor is thinking. And that's what is probably causing my stress. And while it may really out of my hands, I'd really like to pass graduate school the first time around. AHHHHHHH.