So this term started off pretty well.<\/p>\n
For the first few weeks, I had a routine going – I got up an hour before my 9am classes (a huge<\/em><\/strong> change from waking up 20 minutes before), made myself a healthy lunch, actually managed to get some breakfast down and was up to date with deadlines. I had enough time to see friends and go on a fun night out and I also saved some time at the end of the day to read a little just before bed. Boy, was life going great.<\/p>\n Honestly, I don’t really know what happened after the third week.<\/p>\n I remember missing a couple of lectures because “I’m going to end up using Panopto anyways, so what’s the point of going?<\/strong>” was my motto. A few lectures ended up turning into a few days worth of lectures and then a week’s worth. I think it was at that point that I realised I needed to do something about it – but did I?<\/p>\n Nope.<\/p>\n When I hit the two week mark, I started panicking. I had coursework due for a subject but I was so behind on it, I could barely make it past the first part of the first question. I spent the final days leading up to the submission date in the library, rapidly trying to make sense of the lectures, pre-lecture reading and coursework questions. I made it to the second part of the first question the day before the deadline. That night, I sat down at 9pm with a friend of mine who was also in the same boat. Together, we stayed up a whopping 17 hours and I finally handed in my coursework two hours before the cut off. Did this experience motivate me to get on top of things, you ask? Well, slightly.<\/p>\n I went through reading week trying my best to catch up but still ending up being behind. I skipped lectures the week after because I figured I was too far gone by that point. I just wouldn’t be able to keep up. I was stuck in this toxic cycle of skiving in order to catch up, being more behind and then skiving some more.<\/p>\n So where am I now?<\/p>\n I’m currently still very\u00a0<\/em>behind but, on the positive side, I’m ready to get everything back under control. I’ve come home for the weekend to get away from uni for a bit and I can feel myself coming back together. Maybe I’ll only be a week’s worth of lectures behind after this.<\/p>\n Here’s hoping!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So this term started off pretty well. For the first few weeks, I had a routine going – I got up an hour before my 9am classes (a huge change from waking up 20 minutes before), made myself a healthy lunch, actually managed to get some breakfast down and was up to date with deadlines. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138666,300865,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-first-year","category-story-time","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}