2 Week Mark

I've vanished for the last several weeks simply in an attempt to stay afloat this term. Now with only two weeks left until I'm finished (exams and all) I'm finding it hard not to look back and wonder how I've done as well as I have without incurring some sort of permanent damage: ulcers, high blood pressure, a heart attack?

The stress has been insane, the days have been fueled and survived solely on coffee. In perspective, my summer saw me at Starbucks once, perhaps twice a day. That was my entire coffee intake during a full day.

Now I've peaked. Current consumption levels are at 3 cups (home brew) before I even get to school, which is followed by at least 2 star bucks runs and perhaps a school lobby coffee vendor blend as well. Still, I feel tired. I'm wearing thin, approaching a breaking point I previously figured lay way before this.

To date, this term has seen a dozen nights where I've been up to 3 am, 1 All-nighter, and a couple of 5am reporting writing session (2 hours of sleep).

I suppose though, the biggest disappointment thus far has been our design project. While it continues to push ahead much to my personal satisfaction, perhaps even to my personal elation, it continues to get slaughtered by our presiding professor. I suppose its the biggest disappointment given that its the thing I am the proudest about right now, and it's defeat sort of registers on a personal level.