Right now, I’ve hit that point in the school year where I’ve barely started the new semester, but I’m already ready to call it quits. This usually happens fairly early in the spring semester (Whaddya know, I’ve only completed my first week of classes) and I typically decide that once this degree is done, I’m done. This always happens every single year. I begin to feel melancholy and weird for no reason at all, and begin evaluating my life choices under this cover of gloom. I typically try to avoid making any big decisions until March/April since I’m in such a weird mood.
Yeah, this is how I feel during the spring semester. Thanks, Hyperbole and a Half.
But we all know that’s unlikely to happen. Once I finish the semester and have a nice long summer break, I’ll be ready to start my final year and begin applying to some other graduate programs so I can be a student until I’m 30.
I think part of the reason I’m feeling this way is because I already know I’m going to have a much larger amount of work to do this semester for all of my courses compared to last semester. Plus, this spring I have to develop a thesis proposal and defend it.
It also doesn’t help that Knoxville weather has been extremely disgusting ever since we’ve arrived back from Texas. There have been a very tiny amount of bright, sunny days with vibrantly blue skies, but mostly it’s been cold, rainy, gray, and just very, very blah. I’m pretty sure that once things start clearing up weather-wise, I’ll stop being so sulky and melodramatic all the time.
Once again, thanks Hyperbole and a Half for these awesome and crudely drawn pictures that exhibit my feelings.
Anyway, that’s that. In other news I:
- Lost my camera. It is probably buried somewhere beneath piles of crap.
- Have already failed at working out everyday, but I am playing catch up. There were days I was feeling crummy, just didn’t fit into the schedule, etc. So, once I catch up (which means I have to work out twice a day for the next two days) I’ll be well on my way to obtaining some lady weightlifting shoes.
- Started my second semester of grad school! I got off pretty easy last semester as class difficulty goes. The lineup for this semester is Research Methods, Forensic Science and Human Rights, and Advanced Criminology. Plus, this semester I get to figure out what I want to write about for my thesis, whether I want to stay in criminology or try for a PhD in anthropology, or if I want to take the Master’s and get the hell out of school and get a job.
- Got to watch over Sampson while Kaitlyn was at the AIA conference. He is such a sweet kitty! It makes me wish we were in a house so we could have another cat…or maybe a dog? I’ve been wanting a corgi for so long.
I WANT A CORGI TOO! Have you seen this video? It’s freaking adorable! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD3yVwC0fjg
I always felt the same way at the beginning of the spring semester. I would feel so rejuvenated and energized at the beginning of the fall semester, and then when spring began, I’d want to jump ship. Maybe it has something to do with the cold, blah weather that’s so pervasive at the beginning of the spring term?
I think it is definitely the weather. The sun hasn’t fully come out in WEEKS. Now, I’m typically a fan of gray, rainy days, but this is getting a little ridiculous. :/