Stress

Ever since school started, I've noticed that I haven't gotten the 8 hours of sleep I need everyday. I usually get told by my peers that I look really tired. I usually end up falling asleep in 1-2 classes everyday which I never used to do before. It feels like I've stayed awake all this time, and got no sleep.

I learned that I have the worst time management. I know I should improve but it's really hard when you've had this crappy time management skills for the past 4-5 years. This year, with 3 extra classes after school, it has really messed up my work times. On mondays, wednesdays and thursdays, my classes start at 6:45pm and end at 8:45. After school, I would usually take the bus and subway which takes at least an hour. When I get there, I would do my Essel (the place I go to) homework. When I get home, it's already 9:30pm. When I eat dinner it's 10pm. You get my point?

Stress is something everyone learns to cope with, but seriously, I can't get used to it. I learned that if you procrastinate in the beginning of the year, it's pretty hard to get out of it unless you don't have any assignments for 2-3 weeks. Even now I'm procrastinating by not doing my homework or studying for my test tomorrow by blogging. sigh.

Anyways, I seem to cram my studying the morning of. I set my alarm at 6:30 am or 7:00am but I usually wake up and say "uh, I already know this...!" or "I can study during lunch" and fall back asleep. Pretty good studying skills eh?

When I recently went to university fair last week, they told me in order to do anything involving life science it would take at least 8 years. DAMN.... I learned that I really have to change my lifestyle in order to achieve what I want to be. I want to help people and in order to do that, I have to study.

Technology has basically ruined my studying life. Facebook is where my hand naturally types without me even noticing. When I get a note from my hotmail "You have received a new email from facebook!" it makes me so curious of what the new notification is. Basically it has become a game of, "one second of math homework then an hour of facebook." Before my parents would come down and yelling at me to get off the computer and go to bed. Now my parents have given up and they usually go to their room without checking on me. I guess they expect me to take care of myself now that I'm old enough. Secretly, I wished that they were those stricter parents that turned off my computer at 8pm or had those parental internet blocks.

I guess in order to help me stop procrastinating, I should set some rules for myself? I know I'm going to break them, but lets just give them a try.

1) deactivate facebook.

2) basically don't use the internet.

HAHA (: