My brain is on overload.
Today is Wednesday. Two days ago I was meant to have an Anatomy final (for Sonography). But, the night before I came down with food poisoning and all its constituent elements. I was able to postpone the final until tomorrow, but only after seeing a doctor (at a cost of $155… a topic for another day.)
This morning I woke up, finally back to normal, ready to dig into some studying. But of course my dog won’t leave me alone until I walk her, and I have to eat breakfast, and my dog barks and wants to play, and I have to eat breakfast, and she won’t leave me alone until I let her in, and the cats are all over the desk, and, and, and… suddenly I’ve lost two hours of my morning.
Now I’m reviewing for anatomy, and I’m looking at the amount of topics I don’t know about the normal female pelvis (for starters), and my brain is spinning. I have a cumulative of perhaps 5 or 6 hours left to study for this test, between today and tomorrow. Instead of studying, I’m blogging about how it’s stressing me out.
I don’t want to think this way, but, perhaps to ameliorate my anxiety, I need to remind myself that I can make as low as a 70% on this final and still maintain a B in the course.
I’m casting my thoughts to the future, and thinking… wow, could I really handle med school if these classes are giving me this much trouble?
And then I have to reel my thoughts back in, and remember to focus on the short-term plan: Finish the sonography degree. Let the future, to some degree, take care of itself.
Ok, so then what to do about this overload? This constant scrambling to keep up?
- Recently reduced hours at work.
- Winter break coming – will take advantage to study in advance of Spring semester.
- Re-evaluate study methods.
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