I Can't Even Commit to Procrastination

In a week where I thought I was going to be pushed to my limits, I've actually managed to find an awful lot of time to do just about nothing. I had my first piece of assessed work on Monday, the knock-on affect of which was that I didn't get much work other than the preparation for that done last week. I was left with a lot of lecture notes to copy out and even more reading to catch up on so I thought that this week was going to be pretty tricky. As it turns out I have been able to find a fair amount of time to do the square root of squat. I should point out that all bar one of my lectures now have been copied out and I have managed to get a little bit of the reading done this week but not nearly as much as I planned to do. It seems that any plan that you make as a student gets quickly brushed aside in place of other 'important' things like reloading Facebook every couple of minutes. The funny thing is that I found myself doing just that today when I had planned to get all of my reading done, but this time I couldn't even commit myself to procrastination. Needless to say it was a spectacular moment for me because in that split second I realised that I might as well still be asleep!

Old Man Syndrome

Early nights, sore knees and a daily paper: who would have thought this would be the formula to my life just a couple of months ago as I embarked on my student life? It seems I missed the boat when they were handing out iron livers and caffeine shots because I just can't do it for some reason. If fact I correct myself on that matter because a lot of you will know that I can drink all day if the mood takes me, but I guess what I'm trying to say is that I just don't enjoy it as much as I used to. The main reason I think is that I worry too much about falling behind in terms of university work which is nothing to be ashamed of. I've managed to get myself this far because I put a lot of effort in to high school and I'll be damned if I stop now. It's also unfair to say that it's the nature of my course that means that I feel like this because I know people who are doing the same thing as me who are going out all the time and still manage to keep up - what am I doing wrong? I ask myself this all the time and am yet to find an answer.

Special Guest Numero Uno

I know that it's currently a Thursday night and I said that I would be posting on Sunday nights only but I guessed that since I didn't post on the Sunday past that I was in some ways in debt. So I have been trying to think of something to write about all night but I can't come up with anything substantial so I thought I would use one of my back-up plans - my guest writer. I have had this piece of text for a couple of weeks now and I've meant to put it in a post since I got it but I've had other things to do like procrastinate on Facebook so it never got done. 

Are we the Inspired or the Inspiration?

I haven't had a whole lot of time to sit and take stock these past few weeks with what has been a pretty full on start to my law degree. I've touched on this before but I would like to reiterate just what it is like and how different it is to being at high school. I could easily have gotten away away with doing no reading or research in my first few weeks. Not because it has been easy or anything like that but more from the point of view that there is nobody telling you to do anything. It is up to you to go and look at your lecture and tutorial handouts to see what you need to know or do before you attend. It's taking a lot of getting used to but I think I will adjust to it soon and even learn to enjoy this type of learning, even more so than the spoon feeding techniques used in high school.