Oh shoot, class starts in four days!!!
I just realized today that I have a 5 page paper due on Monday after opening an email from a prof sent a couple days ago 😬I’ve made some progress on the readings, but speaking from previous experience, it’s gonna take me all weekend to finish. Or will it? Now that it’s pass/fail, I could theoretically scrape by with minimum effort. Unfortunately for me, I don’t have Div I genes in me so I lack the talent to bs a paper in a couple of hours. I need to actually understand what I’m arguing about to write it out, and by then, I’m 80% done. Oh well.
But that got me thinking, how should I tackle this semester? I knew my courseload was going to be heavy to begin with so having it be pass/fail may seem like a blessing in disguise. But I’m also afraid to throw away four classes worth of education. At least two of them are directly relevant to my major, and I want to do good in the other two to prove to myself and gain a better general understanding of the world. I guess there are corners I can cut like not doing extraneous psets if I already understand the material, or not over-cramming before an exam, but in the end I feel like I’ll give (mostly) 100% effort—just as I had planned to before.