It has almost been 2 weeks since the second semester started, and I’ve never been this stressed this early. If you have been keeping tabs on my micro-blog, you’ll see my incessant whining over everything. What a pain.

But then hear me whine and rant some more.

Heavy workload is usually reserved for incredibly inhumane hell weeks that can be experienced some time February or March. Usually, everything before that, especially the first freakin weeks are light and manageable. Unfortunately, it has been anything but!

My subjects are pretty deadly when it comes to the reading assignments. For the past few days, I’ve been staying up way late (than usual) attempting to finish the readings for the following day. Mind you, 150 pages worth of readings only for one major subject given a minimum of 2 days before is supposed to be normal. And that’s just for one meeting for that one subject. My other major also requires around the same amount. There are graded recitations, quizzes and papers for that reading at least once a week. Kaya wala akong takas. Take note: Our readings are far from the easy, light-hearted, feel-good kind. PolSci readings are usually books, articles, journals on various theories, case studies, comparative works, paradigms, etc by really great authors. I always get this info-overload-kinda-feeling after finishing everything. It’s like I end up mentally drained every night before my T-TH classes and right after my T-TH 6pm class.

I feel tortured. The past school days already felt like eternity. My blockmates and I never had ample time to even take a breather.

I’m sorry. It just gets frustrating at times, especially when you realize that it can only get worse. I guess the bright side would be the skills that I’ll probably master at the end of the semester (let’s hope!). Writing papers. Reading hundreds and hundreds of pages per day. Maybe it will all do me some good at the end, especially when the reality of going to law school is just around the corner. And at that time probably, all this whining and ranting will just be annoying.

Till then, I shall try to find some time to rest tonight.