Stress, Mind-Numbing Stress

DustinTheWindDustinTheWind
edited April 2011 in General
I have been working on various school projects nigh-constantly (15 minutes break to eat was the longest I have had) since 8am. For clarification, it is currently midnight here. And this was performed with very little sleep the night before. And I have more I need to get done before I can allow myself to sleep.

Also, failure is not an option. I need to graduate this semester since my scholarships are about to run out, and I'm on shaky ground in some of my courses as it is. My only options are to power through it with brute force and ignorance or take a sharp turn on a straight bridge. Frankly, the latter is looking REALLY appealing right now.

Comments

  • Mish42Mish42
    edited April 2011
    Ouchies. I'm not too terribly stressed out right now, but I know the feeling of brute-forcing things. For some reason my spring semester last year was RIDICULOUS, and I was getting used to all-nighter after all-nighter after all-nighter. I got the sleep-deprived hallucinations and everything. Thank god I haven't had another semester like that so far.

    Good luck getting through it all... if you do manage to get through it all, there will be the sweet, sweet reward of regular sleeping schedules in the end.

    Still... shit sucks. Good luck in avoiding a mental breakdown.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited April 2011
    I've got a month to go at the internship I'm on. It's a miserable full-time job at $500/month, and I need to finish it to graduate. If I leave on bad terms I fail, and the boss is pressuring me to finish as much stuff as possible before I go.

    At the same time, I found a company to hire me after I finish, but they're so desperate for a programmer that they need one ASAP, so to guarantee the job I've been accepting nighttime freelance work from them.

    I've only been doing the double-job thing for two weeks and I'm already going nuts. I've got this miserable trapped feeling that probably won't go away for, say... 24 days.
  • SargeSarge
    edited April 2011
    Just power through bud. I know how you feel with my junior year and Rugby right now. School from 7:30-3:30 the practice from 4:00-6:00 then I get home to have to do house work and schoolwork. Lots of stress here too
  • brucebruce
    edited April 2011
    I had a lovely day out today. 26 degrees celsius, pub lunch (20 oz steak with blue cheese sauce) and a pint. Lovely.

    No stress here!
  • NoLongerNoLonger
    edited April 2011
    You bastard.
  • DustinTheWindDustinTheWind
    edited April 2011
    Looks like an all-nighter tonight, in preparation for a presentation on the morrow. Then I have another presentation Friday that I am not ready for, so there's another late night to follow. FUNTIMES!
    NoLonger wrote: »
    You bastard.

    I fully and completely agree with the above statement.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited April 2011
    This all reminds me of the first week or two of my second college. I was working a roughly full time job yet and also taking a moderate credit load. Zero personal time. Go to work, go to class, sit at home reading chapters in textbooks and doing homework. Go to bed. Repeat. I cut back my work hours after a short bit because It was obviously unsustainable to me. I wasn't getting enough sleep and everyday I felt even more exhausted than the day before.

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