The Homework Game

My old roommate from back when I was single was texting me the other day. We were lamenting how we were always constantly forced to play the homework game.


You're probably wondering, What's the homework game?


The homework game is when you line up all the homework that you have to get done, and then you pick and choose which ones are going to get done for the next day.


But why are you choosing which ones to do? Can't you just do them all?


I could.... and then I'd fail all of the assignments because I didn't do them properly or completely. Fail all, or fail one or two? There's too many to do them all.


Why don't you have enough time to do them all? Are you just bad at time management?


Probably, yeah. But I'm not one of those people who can just sit down and do homework without a break for hours on end. It's so monotonous, and it's not always fun to do. The Husband Man tries to help me get through it by encouraging me to get things done, promising to play card games between assignments, getting me ice cream or water so I don't break the times when I do feel productive, and that's really really nice. My husband loves me!


You're a music major though, and you chose to be a BA so you didn't have to practice all the time. Why are you complaining about having so much homework?

I'm in a few classes that are very time-consuming. I'm in a Creative Writing course, which involves a lot of reading and writing (gasp!); a Music Literature class, which is pretty much a music history course, and it's fantastic and all but I have to read a chapter a day and take notes so I remember it, listen to the listening examples and take notes on those, and now I have to write a paper on a subject from our book except more in-depth. I also have a Conducting class, where I have to practice conducting and was just assigned a transposition assignment; a Music Theory class, which involves daily assignmnents and analysis and sight singing; and an LDS Hymns and Doctrine class, in which I have to give two presentations between today and the end of the semester, plus know everything that everyone else presented. Plus organ lessons and practicing five hours a week. And I really should be practicing the trumpet at least a little.


I know there are people out there who have a lot more than I do. I know there are people out there who are willing to stay up a lot later than I will to get everything done. If I want to stay awake in class and be somewhat nice to people, I have to get a decent amount of sleep. End of story. (Eating somewhat decent meals helps too.) I think that's the big difference between married students and single students- married students tend to go to bed earlier (and sometimes get up earlier too) while I always hear stories from single students who stayed up until three thirty in the morning to get their homework done and only got four hours of sleep.


I can't do that. I'd rather play the homework game... As long as you play it right, you can still get decently good grades. I think I'm still getting mostly A's and B's, and I'm trying to get all my reading done for Creative Writing so I get that grade back up again. I wish I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, hang on to the idea that someday there will be graduation... and then I get another assignment from another teacher. It's never ending.


PS- It still hasn't snowed. It has been getting colder and colder though. And I think plant might finally be succumbing to it. I haven't taken a good look though.


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