School Woes

I spent six hours today working on a single task for my class. It was pretty discouraging because although I definitely answered all thirteen prompts and completely filled fifteen pages, I still have to attend two more study sessions and review my work before I'll feel confident enough to submit it. I started the assignment last Wednesday and have been working on it ever since.

I was supposed to work on this class during my maternity leave to give myself a head start, but I didn't do a single school-related thing while on leave and it was a struggle to get back into the groove of school once my leave was over. I technically started on June first, but we moved into a new apartment and it took a little bit for me to stop finding nooks for all of our things and start focusing on my schoolwork. I've now talked to my mentor three times in three weeks and I still don't have a single task completed to show for it. It's getting very discouraging.

The other aspect of this task is that it's part one out of five, and I've never had a more difficult or a longer class in my program before. I'm pretty sure this is the class that makes or breaks a lot of MBA students and I just have to get through it. Josh helped me out a bit by pointing out that once I submit this task (and it hopefully passes evaluation), I'll be 20% finished with this nightmare of a course. Here's hoping the rest of the course doesn't take as much time or effort because my brain is just fried. I tried to work on another class this evening after I finished up that task, but my eyes wouldn't focus and my mind kept wandering. I guess I needed a break, so Josh and I watched a couple episodes of Master Chef instead (It's our one summer show and we just love it).

Tomorrow I'll get started on more school with a different class and a different task. I'll also attend a study session and work on a super-fast edit for a friend's book. If I get all of that done tomorrow, I'll feel like I can totally do this school thing again. Here's hoping I'm able to focus!