My Mid-Tudor Crisis

I was in a class this semester entitled the Mid-Tudor Crisis. The object of the class was to produce a 4,500 word essay due 22 April. I did quite a bit of research last week (note, not before break like I probably should have) and had quite a few notecards (my system is to put one fact per notecard and then put them in order the way I want it in my paper). I thought the stack would give me about 2,500 to 3,000 words - wrong! it gave me 1,500 and by the end of the night I had it bumped up to 2,000. This was on Monday night....and it was due Wednesday! So on Tuesday, I went to the library (I went around 4:00 and actually got a seat - the library is absolutely packed right now!) did some research and got almost 3,000 words with that. My plan when I left the library was to come home and research like crazy on the internet and finihs my paper Wednesday morning (wow, I'm still in paper mode....my mind was just trying to figure out how not to have all these being verbs). When I got home, the internet was out! This happened the night before my Rome mid-term was due, also, so I've decided the internet likes to hide when I have a paper due. Fortunately, I'd sent the paper to my mom for proofreading Tuesday morning so I just had to wait until Wednesday to go to the library and finish. My dad also got on and e-mailed me a bunch of websites so I didn't have to find sources on Wednesday. Fortunately, all of this helped, and I finished my paper at 4,149 words at 2:00 (it was due at 5:00). Talk about a stressful time! This morning was my final for Celtic Mythology, Religion, and Folklore - 2 classes down, 3 to go! I kind of don't like that these classes are finished (especially the Mid-Tudor one - I really like it). It means that the semester is really coming to an end. Next Wednesday, I have an exam for my Rome class (not gonna lie, I'll be glad to be done with it) and Katherine leaves. Then, it's May! When did that happen! Kelsey's "people" will come and Viviane and I will accompany them to the Arran Islands and Connemara, then Kelsey leaves on 13 May. On 26 May, my "people" come...and 7 days later, I go home. :( It's all gone by so fast. We have our farewell dinner from Butler tonight (last chance for free food!) I don't want to say farewell...we need to have another welcome dinner! It's going to be so depressing to say goodbye to everyone...maybe I should have come for a year...