My planner has lots of assignments in it for the next few days. No astro lab write-up, fortunately, but a problem set, as well as a midterm tomorrow (which will be pretty easy, since we get an 8x11 sheet of paper, both sides, with notes; only making the sheet is annoying). Something like 150 pages of Foucault to read for Tuesday. Quite a bit of art history reading. Italian homework/writing assignment.
Yesterday I did the Italian and the astro problem set (except for the bonus question, which I guess I'll just do later tonight), which was actually pretty easy. This morning when I got up at 10:30-ish I actually started doing work within 15 minutes of waking up, instead of wasting my life away on the internet per usual. I did all the art history reading, drank tea, then washed out a bunch of dirty dishes, cleaned up my desk and room in general, actually made my bed, got dressed, went to lunch at 12:15ish, came back, and continued on a surprisingly productive path. It's about 4:10 or so now here in Chicago, and I'm a little more than halfway through making my notesheet for the astro midterm; I've already reviewed all the lecture slides online, and I'm going back through the book and using tiny-but-still-legible handwriting to summarize each section of the ~3 chapters that are on the exam. After this is done, I'll go to dinner and then hopefully get Foucault started before house meeting at 9pm. After that is just reviewing more astro, I guess, finishing that bonus question on the problem set, and printing out my Italian stuff.
Sundays are always ugly because of all the work to be done, as well as the feeling of impending doom that the upcoming week brings. Once Monday starts, it isn't actually so doom-feeling, since you're already on the way to getting stuff done, but Sunday nights are pretty uncomfortable. Today has been so unusually productive, however, that I think I might just be able to avoid the up-until-1-am-Sunday-night-finishing-homework-frantically scenario all college students are so familiar with. Weird but cool, I guess.
In other news, tomorrow is the first day of ninth week, meaning that we're actually almost done with classes for the quarter; only 8 class days left before reading period, and then finals. Last week we did class request, which is a little different here than at other schools because we basically have all of eighth week to rank the classes we want to take for next quarter. During 10th week the mystical scheduling algorithm spits back out everyone's registration for the next quarter. This is good in that you don't have to wake up at weird times and rush to nab the classes you want, but it's bad in that after you decide what you want to take, you still have to wait two weeks before you get the results back and know whether or not you're going to have to harass professors to try to get into their classes (a situation commonly encountered when the mystical scheduling algorithm somehow puts you in classes you don't particularly want). If everything works out as I want it, I will be taking Italian, sosc, a psych class on empathy, and an English class on modern love in Victorian poetry and prose next quarter. And then after that I will be halfway done with college. :o
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