I am very busy this week. I just had one mid-term today, and I am planning to lead a discussion section with my group tomorrow. On top of these special events, I still have to manage my other usual homework assignments from the other two classes and pray that I can manage to stay awake enough to survive through the barrage of stress and madness. But overall, I am not too worried. I know that I can handle my current workload, and I have been in tougher situations before. The pain of not getting distracted is getting annoying, but that can be solved through discipline and self-control.

I have decided to take a little time off from my work schedule and reflect my busy days with a nice article. I feel quite satisfied with my current progress so far, but I know I still have to do some tough analysis on one of my readings tonight. I wonder how people would handle my current pressure. Would they give up and go to sleep or become scared and anxious about the work ahead? Thinking of the alternative reactions that I could have chosen, I am in a better mind-set right now. Feeling confident and comfortable with my current situation is playing a huge role in maintaining my sanity at the late hours of the night.

I guess my weakness in working late hours is staying focused. I am not talking about dozing off per se but surfing through the Internet or playing online games at 2:00 AM. Now that’s crazy, and from a rational point of view it does not make sense. It is quite difficult why I have this problem, but I am quite sure that other college students suffer through this critical form of late-night procrastination. As a result, I deleted most “games” out of my computer and decided to do other activities during study breaks, such as writing articles for my websites.

In any case, tomorrow will be a tough day to get through. I have about three hours of class before the class presentation, and waking up early in the morning (The term early is relative to the college student perspective) is going to be quite difficult. For most college students, it is very tempting to skip classes, but I will never do it. College education is expensive as is, and skipping a class is just a lot of money wasted away.

So, the plan for tonight will be dividing the hours into study time and break time, and I will be repeating the intervals until all of my work is done. I have prepared the health-questionable energy drinks to keep myself awake, but my major obstacle again is staying focused. Well, here goes nothing!