Week of Hell - Volume 1 of 1 (hopefully)

It's inevitable in this time of the year - school gets incredibly hard following a mind-crushing winter break and the resulting work to do becomes unfathomable.  This year I think I'm a bit more well-off than last year, but that doesn't mean I won't be grumpy and groggy for the next several weeks.  This actually probably means I won't post for a bit.

Semester exams are coming up soon, which is not what I'm referring to when I describe hell week, because high school exams are typically a joke.  No, the next week is going to completely consumed by preparation for these exams, and study in general.  I'm just surprised that it happened so early in the new year.

So here is my to-do list for right now:

• Study for Organic Chemistry - quiz tuesday, exam monday (even the quiz is vitally important, so yes, lots of study will ensue)
• Write research paper for Geology (this also includes actually doing some research)
• Study for Geology final exam
• Study for AP Statistics exam
• Prepare for a 40-minute presentation in English on a book that is pretty boring and uninteresting.
• Memorize a bunch of french words, do a bunch of other random shit in french.
  
• Give a presentation on the nothing I did over winter break - in french. 
  
• Write/carry out a Psychology experiment
• Practice/rehearse with Winter Legends
• Attend open lab, get extra credit somehow?
• Create a trifold poster about my experience working essential as an intern at a company where I did analytical chemistry - and then extensively rambling about it to an audience of two.
  
• For the weekend:
• Toil away on English presentation
• Study like mad for Organic Chemistry  (Which I refuse to call "Orgo")

See, it's a lot of work, but it's nothing I can't act like I can handle, unlike last year.  But the point is that with two! weeks of examinations and all this shit right now, it could be a while before I post again.  I just hope that there are fewer weeks of hell like this in store for 2010.

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Update!  I'm done with all of this shit, and I'm actually somewhat surprised that I did.  Everything went over well;  I got credit for my Mentorship and, for the first time since early in my freshman year, got straight As.  How cool is that?  It's sort of a miracle that I got an A- in Organic Chemistry, since I only managed to get a C+ on the exam.  For the first time in a very long time, I'm ecstatic with a report card.