And thus begins the most stressful week of my college career:
Monday - Developmental Psych Midterm
Tuesday - Gender in the Arab World Paper Outline Due
Wednesday - Arabic Midterm
Thursday - Middle Eastern History Midterm
Friday - Econ Problem Set Due
Saturday - LSAT!
It's Saturday that I'm worried about the most, obviously. I have no clue how well I'll do - I could get a 165, I could get a 175... I feel as if I've lost my LSAT mojo, to be honest! At least I can retake the LSAT in June if necessary, even though spring quarter will be just as hectic as winter quarter (giving me a limited amount of time to study and improve my score). For now, I'm eating "brain food" - berries, avocado, oatmeal - and mixing in more practice tests/sections among my midterm studying. I made some headway in Logical Reasoning this weekend, which was comforting. Hopefully I can continue to improve a bit more (and regain my "mojo").
Even after the February LSAT and my first wave of midterms are over, it won't quite be smooth sailing for me. I'm running for an Executive Board position in my pre-law fraternity and the election is coming up right after the LSAT. I also found out I'm an alternate for the State Department summer internship I applied for, which complicated my plan to study abroad in Egypt. Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy to be an alternate... but it means I'll be putting down my deposit for the study abroad program knowing that there's a very good chance I'll be forfeiting all that money and taking the internship anyway. A bit stressful, so I'm hoping I find out my final internship status soon and preferably before I have to put down the Egypt deposit.
All in all, winter quarter has been brutal so far and I'm not very happy with my decision to take 24 units. I recently switched my Econ class to Pass/No Pass just so I wouldn't have to worry about a possible GPA hit (last Friday's midterm didn't go very well and the class isn't even required for my major anyway, so I have no reason to take it for a letter grade). The quarter has been overwhelming - nothing but school and work, with a little bit of fraternity stuff mixed in during my "free" time. But on the plus side, the weather is beautiful. Still colder than I would like, especially at night (when it's in the low 30s), but it's sunny and in the 60s during the day so I can't complain too much.
Hopefully my next post of the quarter will be much more uplifting!
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