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I don't know why I keep freaking out about how much work I have to do. Maybe it's because I keep forgetting that these classes are really easy. Sure, there's a ton of work, but it all consists of reading papers and writing page-long summaries of them, and, at the very worst, coming up with a one-page answer to a thought-provoking question. And the questions they ask us are thought-provoking enough that I could probably write five pages in response, so a one-page answer is not difficult. So why do I keep freaking out?

Man, I have got to learn to calm down. I wonder how high my blood pressure gets on Wednesdays.

Why is all our homework due Wednesday evening and Thursday morning??? Someone wasn't planning out our week very well....

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Wilco--Hummingbird

By the end of this year, I will have read every single paper published in the last thousand years, and I will have gone through 247 highlighters, 12 of which will have exploded while I was attempting to highlight, and my floor will be so covered in discarded papers that I will no longer have to vaccuum.

I will also have written 382 one-page summaries of papers, and made 143 diagrams in Powerpoint to illustrate my proposed experiments, and I will have consumed 1677 cups of tea and 904 cups of coffee.

Graduate school was designed to torture graduate students.