I'm a Masters student and a TA. So, in an ideal world, I would have the challenge of balancing my tutoring and grading with my own school work. In the real world, that is the case, plus I have to find a new place to live (my neighborhood has gotten too dangerous), find time to eat (and cook!), make time to meet with my partner for a group project, keep in touch with family and friends who don't live close by, and spend time with my boyfriend and other friends in town. Not to mention those other chores like working out, cleaning the house, doing laundry, etc.
Right now, the semester is coming to a close (time flies!!) and Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching. I know I won't get any work done when I'm visiting family in California for Thanksgiving, so I have to work extra hard now to finish as much as humanly possible before I leave town so I won't be completely swamped when I get back.
I just finished grading 60 exams for the class I TA. Next, shower, lunch, group meeting, homework for Thursday, emails to professors, chauffeur the boyfriend (his name is Jeff, by the way) to his class since he doesn't have a parking pass, and possibly go rock climbing. And that's just to stay caught up. I need to start getting ahead.
That means, in my "spare time" I need to be reading scholarly articles to work on my 20-page research paper for my political development class; researching prices, mental health, and NGOs in Senegal to get going on my 20-page development project design for my development methods and skills class; come up with a presentation critiquing an evaluation of two development projects in Azerbaijan for my monitoring and evaluation class; and reading and critiquing an evaluation to write my 20-page evaluation critique paper for my monitoring and evaluation class.
To sum up, that's 3 20-page papers and one 30-min presentation on top of my normal homework and TA responsibilities, and it's all coming to a head in the next 4.5 weeks. So I'm trying to pretty much finish in the next two weeks. Yeah right.
Anyways...off I go!
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