One of my biggest fears as a graduate student is accidentally hitting the "submit" button and not the "continue" button when testing. I just had a small panic attack recently because I went to "Tests and Quizzes" and the page clearly showed that at some point I had submitted it. Panic. Sheer raw panic set in.
I must confess I have what I call "monkey fingers." Many times the pages in my draft look like a monkey has sat at the keyboard and pretended to type. I am a horrible typist, which is perhaps how I built my super-hero skill of editing other people's work (but sadly not my own). So I believed I had sent off a jumble of half-outline, parts of words, and something that mostly only made sense to me. At some point I realized I was looking at my class I took in January. Idiot. Panic over...for now. The situation will arise again I am sure.
Before I started graduate school online my biggest panic was how was I going to find time for the classwork. I envisioned getting up an hour earlier every day, at 4 a.m. to work in the time. That has only had to happen once. Some how the time has just been made and it has worked out.
But it is not just my problem. Many students experience feelings of panic and anxiety in graduate school. This is your mind on grad school is a blog that examines how graduate student stress was addressed at Berkeley.
All of my blog followers are graduate students. What is YOUR biggest panic now and before you started grad school? How are you coping with those fears?
Janice you are not alone! I believe that my biggest fear of graduate school is not completing graduate school, of failing. There are times when I will toss and turn in the middle of the night thinking about a final exam or project. I keep reminding myself that it will all work out, and it actually does.
ReplyDeleteEver get the feeling that you missed something? That's me EVERYDAY. Missed a deadline, missed an assignment, etc. I've felt like this since I started the program and can't seem to shake the feeling! I have a huge calendar at my desk with all of my deadlines written down. I'm getting used to being on a schedule to prevent myself from missing anything
ReplyDeleteLorrie I feel your pain! I constantly worry that I am going to miss something, especially since there are so many different tabs and sections in an online class. I find myself looking over everything a million times just to make sure I got it all!
DeleteWelcome to my world! Panic and I are on a first name basis!
ReplyDeleteJanice, my biggest panic is thinking that I hit the submit button, but the button not working and not submitting my work on time. The first class I was so panic stricken that it might not, that I actually e-mailed Dr. Van Dyke the assignment.
ReplyDeleteI have had that one too!
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