Kelsey Paul
As the semester comes to an end; my cynicism tends to be a little prolific. This week, I came up with all sorts of topics for M: monkeys, money, masters, markets, and monsters. However, motivation stood out for the winning topic. You see, motivation is something that all my professors seem to think I have this far into the semester. They are all assigning tests and projects and presentations. Instead of assigning these things at the beginning of the semester when I still had the will to get stuff done, they decide to wait until it's a struggle to get to classes not to mention do large projects. My mind, at this point in time, is so burned out that I could study for hours and not retain anything. In fact, I proved it this week. Every time I say something about the difficulty of getting stuff to anyone that's not a student, all I hear is "You need to get motivated." Bull! You try being motivated when you have to go to classes for 25 hours a week, then have about 30 hours worth of homework and are working. Let's see you get motivated after an entire semester of that.
When I bring up these points, however, they always say "well, at least you have your summers free to rest up." That's a load of bull too. To survive in the engineering world, I have to have internships over the summer. This means I work 40-50 hours a week all summer. Then, I turn around and go straight
back to the grueling school schedule again. Motivation is not going to get me through all of that. Caffeine, sugar, and the occasional mental meltdown are what get me through that. Every student has been there at some point in time. Motivation is a shell of thing by this point in the semester. More of a myth than reality. Especially for the graduating students. Cut us break every once and a while ok?
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