The tsunami has struck.
Oct. 17th, 2007 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpfI've made noises about the massive amounts of uni work awaiting me in the very near future before, here and elsewhere. I know I've been studying for so long now that sometimes it must seem to observers as if I would never finish, but the fact is, this summer the tsunami of Finishing Uni crashed into me full force.
This event was not entirely unexpected - the timeframe's been clear since sometime last year. And in fact I've already done a fair bit of work, earlier this year; it's been a busy year for me at uni even without the "added value" of another bunch of deadlines, and I did know that it would only get busier as the end of the year approached. But I kind of hoped/expected that I'd get one last chance of catching up with some private and fannish stuff before the tsunami struck.
But then time did that annoying thing it sometimes does and kind of fast-forwarded me through summer, and a few weeks ago I realised that in fact, This Is It. The great marathon that will only end with the last of my exams has begun. This last exam will be either in November next year, or in March the year after that. I'll be insanely busy until then either way - even if I get those extra four months I'll have to spend them working non-stop, and under non-stop, mounting pressure, because time's already short. (It always is.)
(If I sound overly dramatic here that's because I'm scared out of my wits.)
So. I'm not sure what this means for my life here. I'm not sure what this means for any part of my life that does not directly involve university. I rather suspect it will mean that I'll drop off the face of the earth even more completely than in all my previous instances of gafiating. I rather suspect that before long, my energies will run low and there will be none left at all for anything not connected to writing my thesis and preparing for exams. I find having a life and being a good student hard to reconcile even under the best conditions, and these won't be the best conditions.
This event was not entirely unexpected - the timeframe's been clear since sometime last year. And in fact I've already done a fair bit of work, earlier this year; it's been a busy year for me at uni even without the "added value" of another bunch of deadlines, and I did know that it would only get busier as the end of the year approached. But I kind of hoped/expected that I'd get one last chance of catching up with some private and fannish stuff before the tsunami struck.
But then time did that annoying thing it sometimes does and kind of fast-forwarded me through summer, and a few weeks ago I realised that in fact, This Is It. The great marathon that will only end with the last of my exams has begun. This last exam will be either in November next year, or in March the year after that. I'll be insanely busy until then either way - even if I get those extra four months I'll have to spend them working non-stop, and under non-stop, mounting pressure, because time's already short. (It always is.)
(If I sound overly dramatic here that's because I'm scared out of my wits.)
So. I'm not sure what this means for my life here. I'm not sure what this means for any part of my life that does not directly involve university. I rather suspect it will mean that I'll drop off the face of the earth even more completely than in all my previous instances of gafiating. I rather suspect that before long, my energies will run low and there will be none left at all for anything not connected to writing my thesis and preparing for exams. I find having a life and being a good student hard to reconcile even under the best conditions, and these won't be the best conditions.
