bobo0831

Thanks for the responses guys! Reading them has made me feel better. I realize this may have been a dramatic morning post of early frustration, and hope to get some sleep before figuring out how to manage my work/ leisure time. And ArtHistoryandMeseam, I work in the writing center. Gotta love a writing tutor who can't write! I will be getting feedback from my peers on my essay shortly, so woohoo.

As finals papers are due, I fear I am incapable of completing my assignments. Unfortunately, this isn't primarily a matter of time management since I have delegated more than enough time to complete the papers I am working on, but a matter of textual misunderstanding, writers block, and I fear, stupidity. Basically, I have spent two weeks working on a paper it took my peers one week to complete, and still am unable to compose an acceptable paragraph. I have read all of my sources, brain stormed, written multiple drafts, but every time I sit down to write, I discover that I have misread my sources, or am using the incorrect primary source, have misplaced a point in my overall textual composition, and so on. Hence what seems to be easy for everyone else takes me days to accomplish. I haven't slept and still haven't finished my work and fear my professors will inevitably grow tired of my repeated requests for extensions due to an inability to meet deadlines. I am a first year student, so does this get better w/ time? I wonder if I am overly meticulous, spend too much time reading, etc., but since I can't even read a text appropriately, it seems that spending too much time on attempted comprehension is not my problem. Is anyone else going through this? Has anyone else gotten over a similar problem? Help!