I have been slogging over my papers for the past 3 weeks. Aside from the Margaret River Road trip last 2 weekends and going to Fatima's Mexican-themed party last Saturday, I've been camping out in my room and the library. I haven't even exercised in 2 weeks!

Doing a 5000 word paper is such a tedious process. And the papers are important cos I have no exams, and for 2 of my units, the paper constitutes 100% of my whole grade. It's like a do or die mission.

It's been so long since I wrote papers, the last being when I was in university and even then, the most number of words was 3000. Here, I spend 2 days organising what I want to have in my paper and sourcing for journal articles, and books, and other resources, then I spend at least 2 days reading them and drawing out the necessary points for my paper, then I spend 2 days organising the points and another 2 full days to actually write the damn thing out. What frustrates me the most is referencing. Freaking hell man. I thought it would be the easiest thing, but it's actually the hardest. Took me bloody 4 hrs to get my referencing right. Almost killed myself. I spend 3 hrs in the morning and 2 hrs at night on weekdays and 5 hrs straight on weekends working on the papers.

I've completed 2 out of 4 papers. Just completed the 2nd one yesterday night. I don't think they are fantastic papers but I think it will suffice. I have 2 more to go, and they are the hardest. I'm actually working like a dog cos Nad is coming to visit next weekend, so I must make sure that my 3rd paper is completed so I can have fun with her without stressing out over my work. And my family would be coming down in the week when the papers are due so in essence, everyone else doing the course has an additional 2 weekends (And a lot can be done in 2 weekends) but cos I have family and friends coming to visit, I have less time. So yes, I'm slogging now but when everyone else is stressing out and slogging, I would be relaxing. :)

I'm so stressed about this that I actually came down with a fever and flu. I'm such a stress head. Urgh.... Hopefully the next time I blog, I would be almost through with paper no 3. I can't wait for end May to come...