Day 30: Essay Crisis I

Top 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Pull the Same Stint I Did

[Travelling for 12 days when you know you have essays due, even if it's via email]

10. You should know your responsibilities. You're in Oxford to study.

9. It puts a limit to what you pack in your suitcase. Half of my suitcase consisted of books.

8. It's absolutely exhausting

7. Trying to read your assigned reading on the coach just isn't fun if the alternative is sleep.

6. If that doesn't convince you, trying to read in your hotel room after a full day of walking around and seeing beautiful places isn't much more fun than reading in the coach.

5. It makes you self-conscious because everyone in your tour is on a holiday and there you are looking like you're on a business trip.

4. You don't get to hang out with your tour group much and enjoy the free nights because you are trying to fulfill your responsibilities like responsible adults should.

3. There's always that nagging little voice in your head reminding you that you have an essay to do.

2. So that you won't end up in a frenzy trying to save yourself from the Essay Crisis you sunk yourself into.

1. Because your laptop could possibly give up on you and end up in a vegetable/coma-ish state and you'd end up trying to write your essay with a screen just like that picture above.

In spite all of that, why did I do it anyway?

Two Words: Carpe Diem.

And I got to turn in my paper at 11:30pm, 30 minutes before it was due.

But I'm not pulling this stint again. I did it once, and that's enough. I really don't recommend it. It's not a very good feeling, going through the whole essay crisis.