Admitted/Future grad students currently finishing up undergrad, how are you staying focused?

[Biostat_Assistant_Prof]

I am having the hardest time now staying motivated and focused on this last semester. I guess you can call it senioritis, but I've got it bad! With being admitted, awarded funding, etc., I'm just so excited and ready to move somewhere new and start what I'll be doing for the rest of my life, it's getting increasingly hard to stay focused during these last 7 upcoming weeks. 

 

Making it especially bad for me is that I'm going to grad school in a subject that is pretty different than my undergrad major (major is biology, but grad school in Biostats). The bio classes I'm taking to finish up my degree have literally no relevance to statistics, so that makes things worse because it almost seems pointless to me.... Don't get me wrong here, I'm interested in [most] the Biology (except for a plant morphology course that's required] and I'm not on the brink of failing or anything (still maintaining 4 A's and 1 B this last semester), it's just hard for me to focus when I'd rather think about planning my move to my new school. 

 

Anybody feeling the same way? How are you coping and keeping your sanity these last couple months of your undergraduate degree? I understand the importance of doing well, and in the back of my mind I know I'll pull things together to maintain decent grades in the end, but I'm just having a lot of trouble with keeping my mind off of the future and focused on the present, especially now that I've just finished my spring break!

 

[ANDS!]

How about the fact that any future scholarships or internship  opportunities (at least those within the first year or so) will almost certainly be determined on the strength (or lack thereof) of your final undergrad moments.

 

You have all summer to plan all the great and wonderful things you're going to do in grad school (and 5-years to do one-tenth of them); 60 or so days is surely nothing in the grand scheme of things.

[bloopbloopbloop]

I'm so ready to be done.  I'm practically failing a class (outside of my field, of course).  My funding is good enough that I don't need to worry about any external fellowships in the first couple of years.  By the time I'm applying for fellowships, I'll have finished course work and will have a solid diss project.

[jmu]

I have a pretty easy semester with only two real classes. I'm also taking an independent study to make sure I have a good historical background for my research question and an intro class I never took but that is required for graduation.

[toby42]

How are you staying focused?

 

 

I'm not!! I'm on this stinkin site all the time, trying to see if others applying to the same program have received any news!

Edited March 11, 2013 by toby42