This is my LAST semester!! I am graduating in May, after 14 years of on again off again college! I am graduating with 24 more credits than I need lol so it has been a looooooooooong road. BUT, I am dreading school. Ugh, I don't know what is wrong with me. I was looking through my blackboard (all my classes are online) and it just hit me how hard I worked last term. I know I can do this, I know it will be okay, I know it won't be as bad as I am feeling about it, but just really dreading it. I told dh I may not log into my classes tomorrow and live in denial for one more day!! Ha!

I REALLY am so glad this is my last term and I am graduating.

This coming fall semester is my last semester so I'm semi feeling that way. I'm looking forward to starting the semester still but the closer I get to graduation the sooner in the semester I get sick of it, kwim? Used to fly by but this last semester by week 10 I was like "Ok whatevs...are we done yet?" This semester I have 180 clinical hours too. :/ I'll probably feel like you by this fall! I've been working on mine for about the same amount of time.

:hug:

we can buddy up and get through this, emily. it won't be long. when do you graduate in may? i am walking on saturday, may 9.

if i keep telling myself that, i believe it. the more i believe it, the more motivated i feel. i'm a little intimidated since i have not taken any college coursework since april of 1996...and i'm taking a full load this semester.

my classes are on campus so i will have to go down there (over an hour's drive away) 3 days a week.

Yep, May 9th Tracey! We can be isle walking buddies! I think part of it is that I am disappointed in my degree, a completion liberal arts degree (Regents Bachelor's of Arts Degree) rather than getting the bachelor's in business admin i was working on... but it just was not feasible at this point to transfer and get a degree in that. So, it is what it is, and it si still a bachelor's degree but still. I told dh I feel like I am getting the GED of college degrees.

Anyhow, I AM feeling better about the whole class thing today. I think looking at my entire lists of due dates/projects/assignments/reading etc just threw me. And, when I finished this last fall term in December, I realized how much I was working my ass off and how stressful it was... and just not ready for a repeat. But, I know it will be ok (it will be okay, it will be okay, it will be okay).

It's the light at the end of the tunnel! The last semester is always the hardest.

i hear that about the last semester...

here's to jumping in with both feet and just swimming till the end, right? we'll do it...before we know it we'll be done!

you can do it--it's the light at the end of the tunnel.

Oh congrats Tracey & Emily!

Last semester I took three classes, and it almost killed me. ok, maybe not killed me, but I was seriously dealing with situational depression by the end of the semester, and I didn't realize it until it literally felt like a "switch went off" the day I finished my exams. I had no idea how much it was weighing on me, 24/7.

I'm only taking 2 classes this semester, esp. knowing that as the weather gets nicer it's only going to be more difficult to focus and concentrate. But I'm still dreading the semester starting, as well.

Hope everyone has a great semester :) Good luck!

I didn't realize it until it literally felt like a "switch went off" the day I finished my exams. I had no idea how much it was weighing on me, 24/7.



THIS is it to a tee... I have a really crappy cummulative gpa so I have put myself under tons of pressure to get straight A's. I got them last term... hoping to again. Four online classes and the pressure to get straight A's... dh's annual company trip is in June to Puerto Rico so I just keep reminding myself... stay on track with my weight loss, keep it together with school... and then May will come and I will graduate and get to relax and start getting ready for a well needed vacation!

How good for you!

That is an inspiration- I have also stopped/gone back/stopped/gone back...

What a feeling, I wish you the best!