My biggest concern at about midnight is my time management abilities. I have never been that organized, but I can usually get things done in a timely fashion. Lately I find myself keeping up with regular homework, but every time I get a lab or anything that I know will require more work than the average assignment I feel nervous. I'm worried that I won't have the time to get everything done well or the motivation to start work when I have free time versus relaxing or being with friends. There is a balance I'm sure, I just have to find it. Unfortunately, I'm still losing sleep. I find myself thinking about all the things I have to do the next day or week. I know that I will probably fall into a regular work schedule as I did in high school, but in the meantime is stressful to know that I always have math, English, and a chem lab every week guaranteed. There are also the papers, additional MATLAB assignments (most of which I have to meet with a team for), and the exams haven't even started!
Now that I have released some of my concerns I think I can get some rest. For anyone else feeling similar to me, just take it one day at a time! I'm sure we'll all get used to the Purdue process and find the tricks to balancing life and school!
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Haha. I'm exactly the same way. And since i'm one of those people that needs like 9 hours of sleep a night, when the clock hits midnight, I'm not so concerned about the homework, but about how I'm gonna make it through the next day. One thing I've found that helps is every once in a while, just let it go and go to bed early. Besides the fact that going to bed early and getting up early is scientifically proven to be better than going to bed late and sleeping in, I also can wake up the next morning and have a much more productive day. Not dissing homework or anything, but a lot of the learning in college is not in the classrooms, but instead through the people you meet. If you're tired and worried all the time, interacting with others becomes a pain, and life just gets miserable. So occasionally I just have to take the attitude, screw it, I'm goin to bed. Hope my advice doesn't cause you're grades to drop, lol, but maybe you will find it useful
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