I love this game.

I really, sincerely hope that I never stop getting excited about school.
Let me tell you how I'm doing. I'm waaay over my head in work this week because I have a paper to write during hell week for my dance show and I need to keep up with all the rest of my classes, too. I'm stressed, I haven't gotten enough sleep since the Saturday before last, and I still have to have intelligent things to say about the world and all these readings (that I haven't done) for my 129487 text-based classes. I almost just started panicking because my next class is poetry, and I forgot that my assignment is due the day before class and that I sent it in this morning instead. When I opened an email to apologize to my professor for being a dumbass I realized that today is Monday. Poetry is on Tuesday.
Maybe I should take a nap this afternoon.

And you know what? I was flipping out last night, I was so worried about school and my Latin grade and how the hell I would make it through this week, and then I got back a paper that I wrote for philosophy. I cranked out four pages right before I got on a bus last weekend to go check out a volunteer position at home, and it was a time crunch. I just did the best I could, and I got an A-.

I've gotten As on a few papers so far here, and I reacted the same way to this A that I did to my first--I was so happy. It's the best feeling, finally figuring out how to do something well, being good at something, making progress and watching my grades get better as I figure out what to do. I'm at Harvard University and I'm doing what I can and I'm tired and stressed; but I got an A on a paper, and I think that's pretty kickass.

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