Quarters Anyone?
Well, I am definitely feeling the middle-of-the-quarter stress this week. I seem to have everything due on the same day. For my entire time at Evergreen I have noticed a pattern in the stress levels through out each quarter. The first two weeks aren’t too bad’ you are still mostly reading and listening to lectures. Then week three there’s something fairly big and important due; sometimes it is a draft for an even larger assignment, or sometimes it might be a quiz or essay on what you have so far been learning. Then a couple more weeks of “down time” where you are back to reading and lecture notes, and come week 6-7 there is an even larger assignment due. For me it was my 20-page fiction piece in my Writer’s Workshop. If you read my last blog you know that I struggled a bit with this one, but I did complete it and I felt really good about it. Now I’m in the revision stages of my work, which I find far less stressful because at least I have the whole story written.
I can hardly believe that this is the end of week 6. We only have about 3 weeks left to the quarter, and that hardly seems like enough time for me to get everything done. But of course I know I will, because I’m just that kind of person. I love the quarter system because you have the opportunity to try a lot of different classes/programs, and just when you’re getting tired of that subject you signed up for it’s the end of the quarter and time to try something new! Too bad more colleges and universities aren’t on the quarter system, I really think it’s the way to go.