For those of you who don't know, I am a stationery geek. I lurve highlighters, post-its, pens and well, you catch my drift. The whole of last year, I found myself with pens that would quit working for no reason, so I decided to buy a set of 10 not so cheap (and certainly not so expensive either) pens. And I bought 2 special exam pens (fine tip as opposed to medium - I told you I was a stationery geek!). I started my first pen back in week 1 and I guess I must be taking quite a few notes because I have already finished it. In fact, I am already a third of my way through the second pen!! So I can only draw one of two conclusions... Either I am not making concise enough notes, or I am getting through quite a bit of work. For my own sanity, I have elected to believe the latter.
Enough stationery talk though...
After my realisation last week, I can honestly say that I am doing everything I can to make sure that I am only a little bit behind on every subject rather than completely caught up in one and totally behind in another (I have given up thinking I will have all the notes done in time for the first assignment due dates, which BTW, are a mere 3 weeks away - eep!). I have even resorted to simply reading my Biochem chapters in order to do the first assignment (it is a multiple choice assignment covering all the work). The two subjects I am most behind in are Biochem and Inorganic, mainly because I don't feel as pressured for the first assignment for Biochem and to be honest, I don't really like Inorganic all that much. I have decided that since I am at events for 4 of the 5 days this week, I have taken a slight detour in my plans in that I am going to focus on these subjects for the week. I am about a week behind in the other 3 subjects and should hopefully have time this coming weekend to catch up a little. I am, however, 3 weeks behind in Biochem and Inorganic so since my days are a bit of a mess this week, I have decided to focus on bringing these two subjects as up to date as possible. My mini-goal is to do the multiple choice assignment. It may be the shortest assignment but when you do a BSc, any small victory is better than none. That being said, just being able to apply the t-test equation in Analytical on Friday made mi feel pretty clever!
I will end with a tip for all of you who study and work, or if you are thinking about it, don't be so hard on yourself all the time. I know I set impossible goals sometimes but I already know that I am doing better than last year and I have like I said before, every small victory counts, even if it's reading 5 pages during the ad breaks of your favourite shows.
