Really stressed!!!

[Jeff D.]

Hey guys I'm so stressed out right now. Tomorrow I have a bio lab report due as well as a lab final. I also have to finish my lab manual for tomorrow and get all the calculations down. On thursday I have a huge research paper due that my idiot teacher just makes more and more dumb every day. I feel like I'm in high school when I'm in his class. I also have to create a composition for Thursday as well. Friday I have a biology test. I have to finish 2 chapters of math and take the final exam by tuesday of next week. Also, on Tuesday I have to memorize 6 scales on piano, major and minor triads, and I have to be able to play a song all on the piano which is a very foreign instrument to me. I'm so pissed off at my damn English teacher I had to leave class a half hour into it so that I wouldn't kill him. I'm sending him an email sometime in the next few days and I just want to hurt the man. I'm not going to offend him but I am going to tell him why a former B English student is not doing well in his class. It's because there are such little details that he doesn't care about what's in a paper and when he does care about the content he tells me I'm wrong. The paper was on poetry so how the hell could my interpretation be wrong. He is not covering what we are supposed to be covering, we are supposed to be reading Oedipus, and instead only wants us to peer edit. I may fail his class with a D which will kill me next semester and the following semesters afterwards. His availabilty for me to meet with him is never when I can meet with him so I was never able to talk to him. It's also not that I don't put much effort in his class. I'm freakin' killing myself in that class. I'm so worried about going into a flare especially after the past few days I have gotten hemmies. My girlfriend is trying to calm me down but I'm at the point where I'm just too stressed, too tired, and too worn out to be able to come out of the abyss I'm in.

I wanted to let you know I'm alive, not doing well bt alive. I hate college so much. Nothing I'm doing will ever help me in the years to come.

Thanks for listening to my rant,

Jeff

 

[jed]

you do know that stress is bad for crohns dont you jeff???

you poor bugga! i certainly hope you find a way to cope with this better, or that the teachers back off a bit.

best wishes
Jed

 

[RHOV]

Ahh, I'm sorry Jeff!

i wish there was something I could do to help you de-stress. My fingers are crossed for you. good luck!

 

[kello82]

ah! just reading your list of stuff to get done wore me out!

it sounds like hes obnoxious, but can you talk to your professor about it? be like "YO this class is stressing me out and it could make me flare!"
maybe he will understand and would relax things for you? i would like to think he would be accomadating.
good luck man!

 

[Jeff D.]

Thanks guys the problem is that this is the last week before finals so everything is coming at me all at once. Thanks for the replies

 

[soupdragon69]

Aww Jeff no wonder you are stressed with that flipping list of stuff ahead of you - its like sticking yer neck on the chopping block.

One of the things I try to do is segment it all down. I just focus on each thing in a certain time span and block everything else out. I know its easier said than done but I find it works because if I lift my head and look at the bigger picture I end up in abject panic thinking how the h*ll am I gonna do this lot!

Work out how long you need to focus on each aspect and do it. Was the best bit of advice I was ever given. Takes some practice but it does ease the strain believe me! Sounds obvious but doing it is harder than saying it and IT IS WORTH doing trust me!

Hope what I have said makes sense. Hang in there you will see a light at the end of the tunnel Jeff. Plan some rest days too after it along with a treat so you can unwind.

Thinking of you.... ((hugs))

 

[Jeff D.]

Good thing is next wed starts thanksgiving break. Then finals and winter break

 

[Jeff D.]

I think I need a drink to relax. That's what my girlfriend told me and neither of us drink.lol

 

[jed]

spin around in crcles and get dizzy same effect

 

[Jeff D.]

lol

 

[ladyB]

cheaper, too

 

[BWS1982]

Jeff, my girlfriend is the same way, always trying to calm me down in the stressful times, she always sounds like a therapist doing it too, "reeelaaaxxx, okay, just slow down a second"...then she says the other same thing, that I need a drink, and I don't drink either, and she rarely does.

Anyways, I wonder if what you can do in the future is to talk to all teachers beforehand, at the beginning of the semester, and let them know a big pile up wouldn't be good, and to give you fair warning on day one of what is expected by the end, so you can pace yourself.

Just make sure your email isn't too angst filled, doesn't sound like the type of guy who will react well to that.

 

[Jeff D.]

Thanks guys I finally finished the report and didn't have to stay up all night doing it. I think I'm going to have to retake this class but I'll worry about that next year. I'll just fix up my papers from this year and use them next time. The only bad thing is that I can only do this 5 times without it affected my GPA.