why does my life suck so much guys
Jan. 25th, 2010 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
freezingrayneI just spent twelve hours at school. While this sounds like a bad horror story, it is going to be my life for the next semester.
I don't live at the University of Maryland, I live closer to DC, about 40 minutes away, but that's without traffic. Seeing as there is lots of traffic, I have to wake up at 7:45 am in order to make it to my first class at ten, and then I have classes at eleve, twelve, and one after that. Then I get to sit around for two hours until four, when I have yet another class, which goes until five-fifteen. After than I get back in my car and spent two hours on the beltway. I almost nodded off at the wheel twice tonight, which is not a safe practice.
Of course, this huge day is only two days out of the week--another two still involve getting up early but don't go on quite as long. Then of course, I have work at the damn coffeeshop, which I really need so I can pay for gas to get me to school. So all of this leaves very little time for actual studying and, say, other shit I like to do. Like eat. And sleep.
The logical thing to do would be to do my work during my two hour break during the day, but unfortunately there is a mile walk between my parking lot and my first class, meaning lugging heavy books is not an option.
I know I shouldn't be complaining, since I am so lucky I even have the oppurtunity to go to college, and I know things could be much, much worse. But still, it sucks, and I feel like the world is conspiring against me. I have that helpless sort of feeling I remember from a couple years ago when I was at UNCA and horribly depressed and cutting my arms up all the time.
Hopefully it won't come to that this time.
Sorry to spam you all with this.
I did learn some things though. Bounsera! Mi chiamo Rayne. Sono del Maryland
Umm...that's about all the Italian I've learned so far.
I don't live at the University of Maryland, I live closer to DC, about 40 minutes away, but that's without traffic. Seeing as there is lots of traffic, I have to wake up at 7:45 am in order to make it to my first class at ten, and then I have classes at eleve, twelve, and one after that. Then I get to sit around for two hours until four, when I have yet another class, which goes until five-fifteen. After than I get back in my car and spent two hours on the beltway. I almost nodded off at the wheel twice tonight, which is not a safe practice.
Of course, this huge day is only two days out of the week--another two still involve getting up early but don't go on quite as long. Then of course, I have work at the damn coffeeshop, which I really need so I can pay for gas to get me to school. So all of this leaves very little time for actual studying and, say, other shit I like to do. Like eat. And sleep.
The logical thing to do would be to do my work during my two hour break during the day, but unfortunately there is a mile walk between my parking lot and my first class, meaning lugging heavy books is not an option.
I know I shouldn't be complaining, since I am so lucky I even have the oppurtunity to go to college, and I know things could be much, much worse. But still, it sucks, and I feel like the world is conspiring against me. I have that helpless sort of feeling I remember from a couple years ago when I was at UNCA and horribly depressed and cutting my arms up all the time.
Hopefully it won't come to that this time.
Sorry to spam you all with this.
I did learn some things though. Bounsera! Mi chiamo Rayne. Sono del Maryland
Umm...that's about all the Italian I've learned so far.
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Date: 2010-01-26 01:30 am (UTC)I don't know which campus you're on--I'm assuming, since you drive and don't take the Metro, that you're at UMBC. But I have two suggestions:
1) Maybe the MARC commuter train could be an option? (I am just thinking, you could sleep or study on the train)
2) small splurge for better things later: wheelie backpack? The kind you can either wear like a normal backpack or drag round on wheels like that fancy-pants luggage? I wanted one of those so desperately in high school, when I carried massive piles of books.
*hugs for long long days* My workday is about 12 hours from getting up in the morning to walking back into my apartment, so I feel your pain =/
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:14 am (UTC)YAY MARYLAND!!! Where are you from? I live in Gaithersburg, which is in Montgomery County.
Thank you for the hugs!
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:22 am (UTC)My dad used to work up in Gaithersburg, and we have family friends around there :)
Hugs are always in plentiful supply and to be had for the asking :)
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:26 am (UTC)I'm gonna try to get out of here after I get my undergrad--possibly to Seattle, or out of the country to Italy or England. Or really anywhere but central Maryland.
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:29 am (UTC)I stayed in Chicago after I graduated, not so much out of a particular loathing for PGC, but mostly because all my friends were here by the time I graduated. I'm not opposed to moving back home, especially since a large number of my 'Net friends seem to be fetching up in the DC area, but I like it here, too. Except the cold. The cold can die. I don't know why it wants to be 15 degrees here. :(