Weekly Review : The hectic week before spring break

The week before spring break is always tough... but this week definitely tired me out. As I mentioned before, I am taking 5 classes this semester and since this is the week before spring break, you can imagine all of the exams and projects and essays I had to do. I also had jury duty this week so that definitely took up two days out of my week. I also have been working early morning shifts so that has been sucky too. This week was hell but I'm proud to say I got every single assignment done. Even if that means I was up until 2am doing assignments. I also have Saturday school for my Political Science 010 class and I had a group presentation due yesterday and I could not be more than happy to have that over with. I don't really mind speaking in front of people but the work for it was a lot. I'm also proud that I got my weekly readings, analysis, blog comments, and project plan all done for this class this week. I didn't miss a single assignment this week so I'm pretty happy about it. It's spring break so now is the time where I can catch up on future assignments in all my classes. Even though it's spring break, all of my professor's sill assigned homework over the break, so is it really even a break with all this work? Not really. But at least I don't have to worry about going to class on Monday and Saturday. I'll have the time to work on extra credit assignments and future weekly readings. This week though, I think my favorite reading was Ghalib's poems. His poems really stood out to me and made me feel bad for the things he went through. His nephew died and his wife was unfaithful to him. I think pain and experience come into play as a poet when you write your work and that for sure stood out in Ghalib's poems. I hope to read more poems like his in the second half of the semester.

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