Mack Hughes ‘25
Check In On Your Scared Friends
You know those feelings of anxiety, sadness, and lack of motivation on Sundays that may keep you up at night? Imagine that, but for a whole month. That’s right, the November scaries are upon us, ladies and gentlemen, and I am NOT prepared. I woke up on 11/1 to check my Canvas, only to see that those assignments I ignored because they existed in a different universe – aka on a different calendar page – were staring me in the face. That project’s due date I haven’t thought about because it’s in November – due on Wednesday. The essay that requires weeks of preparation – must be submitted by Friday 11:59. I feel like I’ve just spent this week catching up on October tasks and taking midterms, and now I need to worry about November assignments! Discussion post after discussion post after discussion post. I’d like to see my professors do some discussing instead of reading off Google slides for 75 minutes! There simply isn’t enough time in the day for both my homework and hours and hours of Instagram reel scrolling.
My despair for the upcoming week has persisted into an around-the-clock sense of dread. I’m afraid to check my phone out of fear of another notification from Canvas saying “New Assignment Created” or “Due Date Updated.” My sense of time management went out the door when Outer Banks season 6392 came out, and I had to balance binging that and keeping up with Dancing with the Stars. I suppose if I had clicked that little arrow, I could have seen the assignments coming. Still, here I am, buried underneath a mountain of work that snowballed out of nowhere, except I established that it wasn’t out of nowhere, and I, in fact, was very aware of impending due dates and simply chose to ignore them.
Apparently, Thanksgiving is late this year (whatever the heck that means; I thought it was the same every time?), and that’s why classwork is so condensed into such a short period of time. When we return from break, we have a little over a week before finals. But that is a December scaries problem. Until the countdown to the 25 days of Christmas starts, I will stay suffering in the bottomless pit of work I find myself in as a consequence of failing to read the syllabus. With the days getting shorter and the temperature getting colder (jk it’s still 72 degrees out), it’s becoming more challenging to stay motivated. Remember, it’s ok to seek support from others because none of us should be facing the scaries alone!
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