Going to college can be very tough...

I can't believe it's already May! The semester is almost over... just two more weeks, and it seems to me that it just flew by faster than I had expected it. In spite of the fast speed of this semester's pace, I feel that this time going to college is a very tough thing to do. There were just too many things that happened this semester that were not in my original plan, the deaths in my family for one. Trying to catch up with school work, naturally my getting too little sleep became the norm of my daily life instead of being the exception to the rule. I'm sure a lot of you can relate to what I am going through. I just wish that I am younger to deal with this sleeplessness. Since my lack of sleep is linked to gaining unwanted weight and other conditions, such as memory problems and heart conditions, I really have to do something about this frequent insomnia attacks. Just like right now, It's past 3:00 a. m., and I'm still up.

If you would ask me and know about my schedule, nothing should be so worrisome anymore since my group just presented our class discussion yesterday. I should be more relaxed, right? Well, supposed to be, but it just so happens that sleep won't let me. I did everything that I could to remedy this problem, including cleaning up my resting area, turning off my television, my little radio / alarm clock next to my bed and actually eliminating all possible forms of distractions out of my sleeping area, hoping that that would help. All of these remedies I have done, but sleep is still elusive. So right now I'm just doing my early morning blogging. Maybe sleep will grant me my wish.

I guess, I have to let all these thoughts settle and maybe, just maybe, I'd be able to stop the chatter jabber in my head and and would finally be able to get some rest. I was feeling so overwhelmed yesterday with all the school work and various assignments from all my classes coupled with rearranging the plans to my trip back home after my last finals next week, a global studies class. Now it's more of a relief that my group finished presenting our class discussion. Yesterday my group dealt with intellectual property rights and discussed some points in front of the class where the main focus was on downloading music and how "available" it has become in this day and age on the internet.

Not sure if it helped the cause when I mentioned that recently a great many students received pre-litigation letters demanding outrageous sums of money for payment for downloaded music. Guess what? It was odd that the butterflies in my stomach didn't stop even after the first two minutes of speaking (as I've heard that they would) right there in front of my classmates. Whew! What a relief when it ended!