Posted by alexandra_k on January 1, 2014, at 15:08:10
In reply to Re: school starts on monday » alexandra_k, posted by SLS on January 1, 2014, at 8:29:23
> Can you compartmentalize those things that distract you from focusing on your academic efforts?
why do you think i'm distracted from my academic efforts? i've... found outlines for most of my classes (all of them that was available). i've gotten electronic copies of all text books. i've found preparation material they provided for stuff to do over summer - and done most of it. spent a lot of time with those text books...
how many students do that? why do you think i'm distracted?
i've done other stuff too that i haven't posted about that is perhaps nuttier... i've looked up some of the lecturers so i have mental picture of what they will look like. i've visited the main lecture hall so i'm sort of somewhat comfortable in the main room. i've colour coded all of my classes for the year (it helps me) and stuck my timetable for the year in a prominent place on my wall... along with the unit outline... so i can add notes to it / to the wall as the year goes on...
do i sound distracted from my study?
these sorts of things aren't necessary.. but they will help. will help me not get behind. that is basically the idea. there comes a point where information is being thrown at you too fast for you to keep up with it properly. where you are overwhelmed. and you just gotta keep trying to not drown as best you can. then you see how you did compared to others when you get your grade. all this preparation is about postponing the point where i start to sink. i can get through to semester break if i'm well prepared. then if i use my semester break to pre-read... it will only be the last half of the last half that will be sheer living hell. that is enough (typically) to give me the edge...
> By the way, mild depression and dysthymia feel more like laziness than the paralyzing anergia that can accompany major depressive disorder. This "laziness" very often includes procrastination. Even a small degree anergia can prevent one from completing tasks.
does mild depression and dysthymia make one lazy / procrastinate... or does being lazy / procrastinating make one mildly depressed / dysthymic.
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i'm not sure why you say i'm lazy / procrastinating... didn't i say that i did work... i have worked all along... that while I often FELT like i was being lazy / i hadn't done enough, that that wasn't actually the case.
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i must be missing something...
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