The pressure mounts…
A digression into the personal stress of Ph.D. study. I should expect that this would happen, but it doesn’t stop being difficult to manage. The end of the year. The fact that I’ve felt behind on too many things for months. Having it all come to a head in the next three weeks. I don’t know how much I’m doing it to myself by being such a perfectionist, and how much is just the nature of what I’m up against. But it sure feels insurmountable right now…staring ahead to the next few weeks. Of course, it will all get done. It always does. But the stress is pretty high right now.