Stressed by the stress

This last weekend was so stressful for me. I had literally 100 online spanish activities to complete by midnight last night. I also had a spanish test to study for because my test was today (with might I add one of the hardest spanish teachers at Cabrillo-according to ratemyproffessor.com--and had I known this I would have dropped and switched when I could). I also had an entire history book to read by thursday. And on top of that the article to write for this class that is supposed to be due thursday as well.

Kind of ironic how I am stressing out about writing an article to help my fellow students de-stress. I almost got to the point when I thought why? Why put so much energy in to this article? It is a one unit class. ONE UNIT. On top of the 19 units that I am taking this semester. But I realized that I couldn't just give up on the article because that would mean so much more than just giving up on the article. If it wasn't for my love of journalism putting this much time and energy in to a one unit class would not be worth it. This is what brings to my next point, why is this class only worth one unit? It astounds me that Andre's class where a lot less work and time is involved is three units, and yet the class where a small group of students is expected to research, write, and produce the newspaper for the entire school is only one unit. This just astounds me. I think something should be done. I think that more people would be willing to put their all in to it if they felt like it was helping out their schedule. If it wasn't for my love of journalism I know I would be kind of skeptical about the whole situation too.

Sorry, a little side-tracked. This blog is about my stress and it all coming together. So anyways before today I was really stressing about everything working out or not. I was glad to recieve time to work on articles today in class. I felt like this was really beneficial for the class period because I think a lot of other people are stressing out right now too. I got a lot of work done on my article now all I have left to do is put it all together. So thank you to Emily, and whoever else, for deciding that we should have classtime to work on our articles.