4 Weeks Condensed into One Weekend

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My scholastic work ethic is sometimes questionable. I’m a sucker for procrastination, easily distracted by personal projects, and waste time. I really did it this time. I decided to take art classes as my electives this year, one per semester. We have a sketchbook in which we’re supposed to complete two assignments per week. I was doing really well for the first few weeks, but I grew lazy. Each week I kept telling myself that I didn’t have time this week and would do them later. I accumulated four weeks of backlog.

It wouldn’t be too bad except that I’m an extremely slow artist. My teacher says if we are spending more than an hour on each assignment, we are spending too much time. She said we can stop after one hour if it happens. I’m too scared to do that because if I don’t finish it, it looks terrible and I’ll get a bad mark. Just because I spent an hour on something doesn’t mean that it would look like I spent an hour on it to a critic. Eek. I stayed up until 4am working on Friday, and I worked a fair bit on them Saturday afternoon. I did manage to finish all eight pieces, and a few of them I’m actually quite proud of. Yay!

The next two weeks are going to be fiendishly mean to me. There are so many essays to write and so many novels to read.

• History papers x 2
• Three English papers x 3
• Exams x 3
• Art Portfolio

I’m really happy that all of my exams are in class rather than during the exam schedule. I get to go home directly after my last class in December. I’m counting down the days!

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