Feeling Overwhelmed

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Jenn,

Yes there is, problem is the school is about 40 minutes away. Not unmanageable but not very convenient. I guess I am letting my fear get the best of me. After printing all the tips and advice for what an essay should consist of, I freaked. I will try to remember "one assignment at a time" and keep repeating it
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Thanks!

The tips and advice are great for the framework and style of your paper, but the most important part is the content, and you are a unique individual with insights and experiences that ONLY YOU can relate to someone else. Draw on those for inspiration. Write about what you know.
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Tabs,

I work at a university and it amazes me what hot stuff the freshmen think they are. And yet it's consistently the older students who impress me with their knowledge, insight, and ability to communicate. You were admitted to the univ by a team of people who believed you could do it and be successful. You weren't admitted just because your check was good.

You have to believe in yourself. Start out writing your paper with an outline:

Proposed idea
Supporting info (1 card each set of info)
Summary of the above

Write it on 3x5 cards and write the info you use to support your thoughts/ideas on the cards. Keep adding thoughts on the cards and before you know it, you'll have a paper in the works.

Remember that a paper doesn't have to be written in a linear fashion. You can bounce around, and you don't have to write a perfect paper on the first draft. I think that computers have made the creative process more challenging, b/c people feel compelled by the crisp screen to write a great work.

How does one eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
 
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I have that severely. Almost to the point of feeling like I have early Alzheimers. Its scary. I did read somewhere that not getting the sleep your body needs will cause memory loss so I tried going to bed earlier. I laid in bed tossing and turning for hours and did me no good. I am a night owl and I feel more alert and active after 10 pm. Poor DH finally quit hollering at me @2am to come to bed. It's hard getting up at 6:30 to get the kids ready for school when I just went to bed 4 hrs ago. Then I feel guilty sleeping through the day. I tried OTC sleep aids a while ago and when I started getting headaches from them I stopped taking them. I realized what becoming dependent on them meant. I couldn't go to sleep and it finally wore off after about 2 weeks.
 
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Thank you for that, I may just take you up on that. BTW, I have an American Cocker Spaniel and I just love the breed. Such loyal animals!
 
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I have that severely. Almost to the point of feeling like I have early Alzheimers. Its scary. I did read somewhere that not getting the sleep your body needs will cause memory loss so I tried going to bed earlier. I laid in bed tossing and turning for hours and did me no good. I am a night owl and I feel more alert and active after 10 pm. Poor DH finally quit hollering at me @2am to come to bed.

Know exactly what you mean there, too. I'm very much a night owl; my husband is a "lark". He is used to bouncing out of bed bright eyed & bushy tailed at around 5 a.m., while I'm more of the "go to bed by 5 a.m." type.
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He has worked nearly all his life on boats (towboats, and for the last 13 years, steamboats) standing 6 hour watches (six hours on, six off) meaning that he would never get more than maybe 4-5 hrs. of sleep at a time, so he's used to dealing with sleep deprivation. If I don't get the sleep I require to function, I'm pretty much useless for the day. It does help to start to go to bed earlier and get up a little earlier, but only if you can SLEEP when you go to bed. Otherwise it's an exercise in futility and a source of great frustration. When I was seen by a physiatrist (no, not psychiatrist, physiatrist -- a dr. who specializes in body mechanics, symptom identification & treatment, etc.) who diagnosed me as having fibromyalgia, things started falling into place. That answered a lot of questions for me about the weird sore spots I'd have in various places, muscle cramps & spasms that kept me from sleeping, insomnia even when so exhausted I wanted to scream, and "fibro-fog" (that weird mind-numb effect of chronic pain & exhaustion). Understanding what you're fighting helps to know how to fight!
 
Best of luck. Feel you on the school thing, but luckily I don't have a kid to take care of too. Doing UG as bioengineering, where we had research component as part of req's, 9am to 11pm days in the lab/class were pretty much normal, with some nights going into the wee hours of the morning. Now that I'm in grad school in the sciences, add classes to work/research, in a world where you have to be there when the experiment is ready, be it Saturday morning at 4am or friday night at 11:30pm, it is a pain. I'm often at the end of my wits and having to manage pets 300 miles away. I can't even imagine what it is like trying to have a family at the same time. You're way ahead there.

What helps me is making lists.

Just take 15 min at the beginning of the week and itemize. Then take 5 min each day to review the list and get going on it.

I make a list of the work I need done for each class that week, the experiments I need to get done in lab, and lists down to what will be for breakfast/lunch/dinner for each day of the week. Everything is itemized on a list with check boxes. Appointments, classes, even breaks are put in to the list. When it gets real bad, I put things down by 30 minute increments, including things like showers and teeth brushing. Every few hours on the time schedule, I put in a one hour "gap" time. The gap times are used to either take a break, or catch up on something I under planned time on. However, might not work for all, as lists can stress some out.


Take a deep breath! Good luck!
 
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I love the long curly hair and seems like always wet ears. They can lift your spirits even when you do not believe it is possible

My favorite is their eyes. Such big, brown loving eyes. Maggie doesn't have long curly hair anymore. Once we brought her into the house in November, she got a haircut since she sheds so bad! I can't wait to get to a warmer climate and I plan on keeping her shaved down to eliminate the hair all together. She is such a big baby. She was bottle fed from 6 days old (she will turn 2 in April) so she thinks she is human. She is a good farm dog too. She guards the chickens for me!​
 

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