This is just ridiculous.

[seventhe]

I have finally finished Part L of a lab report - basically a macrolab, which was made up of microlabs A-L. Each microlab had its own microreport, consisting of 2-5 questions, sometimes with multiple parts. I have probably already answered 60 questions and that's not including the ones I skipped because I couldn't easily find the information online or in a textbook.

14 pages, 3162 words.

This is ONE of the TWO reports that are due on Friday. We did two labs: one was this big macrolab and one was another "small" lab which didn't take too long but still requires its own report.

I spent almost all weekend working on this lab, minus one planned disruption for the Super Bowl and one unplanned thing that happened Saturday night. I actually took vacation today to work on the report.

I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to finish before Friday. I see now what they meant by "full time class load." The other students have 6 days a week to write these. I have 2, if I don't fuck up and spend time on things that aren't lab.

My options are basically miss more work or miss more sleep. :/

Oh, and I'm sick. I have a sore throat and no voice, and the sniffles.


I really don't know how I'm going to do this.

Comments

[owlmoose]

I very much agree with Nay. Your work benefits when you finish this degree, and it's really not in their best interest for you to make yourself sick, or fail the course, or both. I think you need to have that sit down with your boss and see what he can do. A part-time sabbatical, especially, seems like something that ought to be realistic.

Good luck and much sympathy. :\

[seventhe]

Yeah, I think next week when I am caught up (hopefully!), not sick and not stressed, I'm going to see if there's anything else they can do for me. I don't really know how sabbaticals would work, if I could take it in small increments or if it's only "X weeks off at a time" type thing. But it's worth asking about. If nothing else it makes them aware of what's going on. If they'd rather I take 2 dozen sick days, so be it. :/