This is when the flaming chainsaws all come tumbling down*

I was supposed to be writing a paper for my grade in one class.**

I thought the paper was due on April 28.***

I found out today that the paper is due NEXT MONDAY.****

I also have to finish a project worth 50% of my grade for another class.

I thought that project was due a week from Friday.

It's due a week from Wednesday.***** 

Did I mention that I'm traveling this weekend for a third class? And still have two projects to finish for my internship? And that my brain is so very very tired?

 

 

* AKA: this is when my belief that I can! and will! do! everything! there! is! to do! in law school! comes back to bite me in the ass. I have got to get it through my head that doing everything isn't some kind of accomplishment, it just means I perform mediocrely at a whole bunch of different things.

Or, AKA: don't take 17-18 credits in your last semester of law school!

** Here is the place in the lesson where I gloss entirely over how little much work I'd actually done for this paper so far.

*** I don't know why. I had no good reason to believe this. I just made it up in my head for some reason.

**** Praise be to all the gods and goddesses, this class offers a paper option OR an exam option, and the prof allows us to bail on the paper right up to the paper's due date and take the exam instead. Of course, since I was convinced I was going to write the paper, I have been less than diligent about the reading for this class. But I have decided it will nonetheless be easier to catch up on all the reading and prep for the exam than come up with X number of pages of original thought by next Monday. Not EASY, but easier.

***** Hey, two days makes a BIG difference at this point in the semester.

Comments

[Juliet]

Yuck. Good luck!

[joy]

oh god, I'm so sorry. Good luck! I've been having terrible insomnia the last couple of weeks, brought on, I think, by the cumulative stress of this place. I'm never done, there's always something I'm forgetting, and there's always some new obligation arising. Or not arising, but rather coming to my attention in the form of a missed or nearly-missed deadline. I know that feeling.

[loyal reader]

What are you going to do when you have, like, court cases and clients and motions and briefs to keep track of.

[New Kid on the Hallway]

Clearly, I will fail miserably. Just like I did when I had class prep and student projects and grading and conference papers and university committees to keep track of.

[New Kid on the Hallway]

(dude, why are you so convinced I'm going to suck as a lawyer??)

[loyal reader]

If YOU are convinced then that is what matters. You will do well.

[shrinky]

For some reason I absolutely cannot keep track of class assignments and deadlines. I'm working f/t and taking classes. I can keep track of work deadlines no problem - but I have some sort of brain black hole when it comes to class stuff. I finally resorted to (after having read the wrong readings or having missed some of the readings) using outlook reminders. But if I fail to tell it to remind me far enough in advance, I'm lost again.

I think it's some combo of cognitive overload and avoidance.

all of that is to say, I can totes see this happening to me too - and I am very able to manage my job (I'm also a very good student).

[joy]

"some combo of cognitive overload and avoidance"

shrinky, that's perfect. That completely explains the blank-outs that I sometimes experience in law school, which I NEVER experienced in my working life.