I can feel the pressure... ✖

It's been a pretty rough past two weeks. "Midterm season" is here; this means ten times more stress and pressure on myself to get A's on my exams, and I'm also trying to get in as many observation hours as possible by the end of this month (April's going to be too crazy to get a lot of hours in). What tops it all off is that I'm getting sick again.

I know it's not healthy to be stressed out, but this semester is rough for me. My classes are hard, but not compared to other classes I've taken; my problem is that I have no time to do anything. By the time I finish my night classes, I want to fall asleep, and when I do have my free time, I end up working at one of my jobs. When I'm home on the weekends, I go straight to my room and struggle through my work, preventing me from spending time with my family.

I've never really had the chance to "breathe" lately. I've been having a lot of emotional breakdowns over the stress and pressure. Sometimes I wish if I could just have a personal day to myself where I don't have to worry about anything. For now, I just need to keep working through and having support from my family and friends.

On a lighter note, I'm looking forward to spring break--while half the time I will be starting research papers for my history classes, I have some pretty fun things planned ahead, which I'll talk about next week in my blog post.