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nowaypablo  ·  2295 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 13, 2017

Third now. It's still mostly core classes that are largely unrelated to each other, such that within 24 hours I have final exams in Persian, American Foreign Policy, and Physics.

The hard part at my school isn't the academics alone, but it's getting the academic work done through the vast, writhing shitstorm of a million smaller time-sucking responsibilities on the military side of things. Takes a lot of mental endurance. I'm working on it!

Have you graduated already? How are things over there, where the grass is greener?





blackbootz  ·  2290 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not graduated yet. Three more semesters myself, one of them abroad hopefully.

    The hard part at my school isn't the academics alone, but it's getting the academic work done through the vast, writhing shitstorm of a million smaller time-sucking responsibilities on the military side of things. Takes a lot of mental endurance. I'm working on it!

That's fascinating. I have a bit more to juggle than the typical college student, but it probably doesn't compare to your writhing shitstorm. But that sort of practice, the imposition of a gauntlet of mass obligations, might be worthwhile. It's a tired cliche, but time management and prioritization are probably among the most important and universal skills for the self-actualized.

That said, I don't want to romanticize painting boulders, or whatever mind-numbing shit they have you doing. (My mom's unit, during basic training, once was tasked with painting rocks for a day.)