I'm not failing any of my classes, but for the first time in my life, I'm not excelling in them either. It feels like shit. I have C's in most of my classes right now. Yesterday, I wrote about how exhausted I was. Part of that exhaustion comes from the fact that I am putting ...
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Take it Day by Day
Exhaustion is a tricky beast. Some days, you're fine, you can get through twelve hours without much trouble. Other days, you're better than fine. You can do so much within the time the sun rises to the time it sets, you wonder why you don't do that much every day. Those weird days though, those ...
The Value of Being Purely Exhausted
After my weekend at the conference, I am beat. I have not been as tired as I am right now since I first came to Montreal a few months ago. I got in late last night and didn't get to bed until 1am this morning. I woke up at 8 so I could buy myself ...
The Worst People at Academic Conferences
AynRandCon has been over for less than 12 hours, but I wanted to give you a run-down of what I thought were the worst types of people I met during the conference. I don't want to burn any bridges here (although I highly doubt anyone looked into me deep enough to find this site) so ...
An Objective Approach to Ayn Rand Con
When I told my boyfriend I had been accepted on a scholarship to attend this conference, he was surprised. He had actually been the one to introduce me to Rand and her objectivist philosophy, but I had yet to dive into the ideas. I bought a copy of Atlas Shrugged and, frankly, I am still ...
Hello, November
You have 60 days left in 2018 to do something. Who cares what that is? All you should focus on is the fact that you have 60 days with nothing to lose. 60 days to do 60 things and learn 60 something-news. You get the idea. 60 days. When I think about what I associate ...
How Long is Too Long
When is enough enough? This is a question I have always struggled with. When will I be sick enough of what I am doing that the rewards I am offered are not valuable enough to keep me slogging away? I've spent twelve and a half years in education. As the semester inches to an end, ...