I somehow made it through one of the most difficult weeks of this semester, and through one of the hardest months this year so far. Last week felt like the epitome of hell. I was sick, mentally not in a good place, tired, and burnt out. This is definitely the point in the semester when students (including myself) feel helpless and like this never-ending feeling of stress is going to keep going forever. I’ve never felt this intensity of burnout until somehow surviving the last two weeks where I had a total of 3 exams and various assessments due on top of struggling in my social circle, with my mental health and trying to figure out our new apartment and its logistics.

But I made it through. And at the moment, I can actually breathe for once. This week has been much less stressful and I’ve had time to actually do my nails or watch an episode of a TV show- something I could’ve never made time for during October. And we’ve signed the lease to our apartment! So we will hopefully be moving out next month (given Northeastern approves us). This weekend, I want to take time to heal – given my current cold and to heal my mind. I won’t be going out too much this week simply because I went out so much last weekend that my body is just now catching up.

Hopefully the remaining weeks of this semester flow by smoothly- even though I know two weeks from now I will be extremely stressed because I have 3 exams and one paper due all in the same week. Should be fun! But once these are over, Thanksgiving break comes and we are truly in the home stretch.

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