I think I can, I think I can!

I can do it! I am ridiculously stressed, but I can handle it. I just completed my Q&A for J54 (see below) and discussed with my professor about my last article for the class. It looks like, if I do well on my last article and this quiz, I will be able to pull off an A. My term paper for Rhetorics of the American Family got pushed back until next Thursday! I'll probably finish it before then, but it's nice to know I have more time. So now all I really need to do is write my sociology term papers, finish my ad principles project, and study hardcore for psychology. ... Okay so maybe that's a lot, but I'm keeping a positive attitude in order to get everything done. 

Gotta go to psych!

Extraordinary Junior Deals with Stress

Here I sit, with third-year Elizabeth Falvey Feinstein, a worker at the Carpenter front desk. Today, she took a six hour shift as an attempt to force herself to do her heavy load of homework that is overspill from Relays and a final preparation. Although she is only a junior, this is Elizabeth's last semester of classes, here at Drake University. She is a secondary education and history double major, next semester she will be student teaching. And then she will be graduating. At the culmination of her higher education, Elizabeth, like myself, feels quite stressed. Here she discusses this stress and how she attempts to deal with it.

Caitlin Feuer: What are you stressed about?

Elizabeth Feinstein: All my projects and finals. My capstone paper is thirty pages. I'm writing it about Theodore Herzl and Israel.

CF: Who is Theodore Herzl?

EF: He was the founder of modern zionism and was around in the late 1880's. And he set up a plan for what he thought what the Jewish State should look like.

CF: How far are you on your paper?

EF: Oh you know, it's hard to say because I only have five pages typed up, but I have a lot more notes. I'm in the middle of taking more notes and writing.

CF: How are you dealing with your stress?

EF: I make lists, it's kind of OCD... not really. I can see them and see what I need to do and it's less scary. It's much easier than having everything floating around in your head.

CF: Have you ever broken down from stress?

EF: Oh yes. I just started crying during the middle of the semester. There was just a lot going on.

CF: Is there anything you enjoy about this week?

EF: The nice weather. And knowing that it will be over soon.