Sigh! I am here to talk about the same old story about my studies. As of now, my studies are not going so well. I guess it is about the feelings of exhaustion, fed up, under pressure and burned-out. I believe these feelings have been tormenting all grad students throughout the ages, because I have read a lot of complaints in the internet over the “suck”ness of grad studies. Lately the feelings are so overwhelmed and they start to affect my life so much in every way I can possibly imagine.
I asked a friend of mine about my problems. Thank god, he is the same shoes I am in - doing his PhD (permanent head damage, as I like to call it). He suggested me to return to God and religion and I am doing it right now. It does help a lot; but now I am worried about different things. About what I actually did for the last 12 months since I entered the program. Is my progress substantial? Are my efforts significant? Personally, I like to believe that they are just OK. To be honest, they are utterly not. I don’t really have much of a progress lately. My performance is diminishing. Obviously if I take a diagnostic test I would probably downright FAIL.
My recent situation is kind of unprecedented to me. I am juggling with a million issues at once. To make the matter worse, I start confronting with my emotional struggles. Qualifying exams, textbooks, classes, research, supervisor, journals - they are just raining on me with no signs of stopping soon. My control over the matters is deteriorating. My performance is plummeting. I am physically exhausted and mentally jaded. I really need a plan, a very good schedule and stick with them. The only thing I can do right now is to hope that the situation is not getting any worse.
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