Presentation for school....burn out.

For the International Studies course (Middle East: Iran specifically)

We were not to use notes and were to explain our research project.
It had to be 15-20 minutes.
I made power point slides to go with it.
I was nervous, as I wanted to do well.

I have had "School Burn-out" so bad lately. Anyway....

I got many compliments and it went pretty well.
The professor appeared to like it.

Anxiety struck at one point and my mind went blank, in the middle of the presentation. I do not think I ever got back on track but I kinda faked it.

Over all it went pretty well.

I stress so much over this stuff and procratenate so bad.
I get upset and put my school work off till the last minute.
I feel the anxiety and pressure....but I just sit on the couch and avoid it, do not do what I have to do...

Then some how I do it and it all comes together. I would have much better quality of work if I do not do that. My research is due next week and I am doing the same thing...it is like a panic button saying "I can not do this right now, I do not want to, I can not do it".. My jaws hurt from clenching them so tight when I think about it.

I can not explain the feeling very well.
It makes no sense logically but I really do get that paniced and just avoid it and refuse to do it.

Anyone ever feel like that?

I do not know how I made the Deans List again, really I don't.

Twin, I am here for you ((())). Vent anytime you need to...I may be able to shed some light on how I made it....

Huggs

Jen

yea i feel like that most of the time lately except i usually don't do well on my projects or work. I used to be good in school and now i am having the same problems as your are. I am glad to be done all my homework this weekend for once but i have to present a book report next week and I'm scared of just blanking out in the middle of it (because were not supposed to read off of anything and its supposed to be 15minutes long..)

One thing I have discovered with power points.......

You can make an outline there and have that to go off of.
Although I am happy the oral presentation and power point is over, I still have to finish this gosh awful research paper and I am not in the mood. I want it done by Thursday. I have another class starting on Tuesday...yikes.

I identified with a lot you had to say, especially:

I taught myself over the years to get to know my habits and how I did do things and to "relax" about it a little as it did end up being okay. Trust yourself! You're in this together with You :-) What needs doing will get done. I don't know that we can say we'd do it "better" if we did it differently, since we don't do it differently! I quit trying to read books and do things as I "should" do them and, instead, paid attention to my own likes and habits and worked with myself to help in any way I could. Let yourself just do outlines or just write a thesis statement only or just glance at a bunch of books and get your interest in the subject back?

Remind yourself of the projects you've done in the past and how they've turned out "okay" and, especially, remind yourself YOU ARE DOING IT ALL FOR YOU! The teacher, your parents, significant others, no one else "cares" what/how you do, you're doing it for you so you only have you to consider. It was very freeing to me to realize that I could take chances and do bizarre :-) things if I wanted to experiment because I was learning for me. Inevitably, I got all A's! That certainly wasn't the story when I was going to school like I was "supposed" to. Figure out what YOU want, not what your teacher wants!