Oh, Midterms.

In school, there are different teachers for every subject.  Some are relaxed, some are uptight, some are creative, some are cut and dry.  It's one of the best things about the system; there's always someone different waiting in the next class.  

So it always astounded me that all of my teachers could plan tests or papers for the same day.  One might think that with so many different kinds of people, these examinations would spread themselves out.  Alas, somehow they did not in high school, and they do not in college.  This weekend was rough.  Engineering lab due Monday, chemistry lab report due Tuesday, chemistry lab prelab/procedure due Tuesday, calculus exam Tuesday, rough draft Wednesday, all mixed in with classes, rowing, and other activities (sleeping is nice...).  I made a plan, an hour by hour plan, as to how I would spread this week's work out over the weekend.  This was abandoned within the hour, as errors in engineering code stretched later and later into the night.  Fast forward from Friday to Tuesday, and my paper remained untouched.  

It was a struggle of sorts, writing this paper, though this can mostly be attributed to my already fried brain and my time table.  I have every intention of coming back to it and completely rewriting certain sections that I know are weak.  I will be reading scientific journals to better understand the facts that back up my case, and will therefore be able to craft stronger arguments as a whole.  It will be better, simply because I will have time to write well.  The prompt is a little unwieldy. and the nature of the beast itself make the paper challenging  (research papers are different than English papers).  But it is very doable, and my writing will improve.

It's a process.  Let me process, and I will progress.