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Thank god for caffeine.

Right now I’m sitting in school during one of my free periods. Does anyone else find it somewhat ironic that I now have more free time in school than I have outside of it?

All of my teachers have decided that, now that I no longer have any motivation, it is the perfect time to load my backpack up with projects and questions and essays and mind-dulling busywork. I wasn’t able to get to bed any earlier than 2:00 AM for the past two mornings, and I have to get up at 6:00 AM to go to school. But maybe a lack of sleep is something I need to get used to anyways, as college gets closer.

The only ray of hope, the upcoming week-long April vacation, was skillfully deflected by the mirror of my teachers’ recent collective decision. For the upcoming “vacation,” I have the following work due:

• Two sets of AP Euro chapter questions.
• A 564 question AP Euro review packet.
• A 15-page AP Biology review packet.
• An AP English essay in the style of Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”.
• A reading journal on Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”.
• Four 1-page essays on different aspects of Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”.
• A 1-hour free write for AP English.
• An entire Assistive Technology Design Project (for my Assistive Technology & Electronics class).
• A theoretical model for the moment of inertia of a composite baseball bat (for my Baseball Bat Design class).
• A final baseball bat design based upon the above model.
• A highly-detailed final design report discussing the development, design, independent and dependent factors of my model and the predicted performance characteristics of the final bat.

Wow.  Writing all of these down isn’t making me feel any better.

I am also going down to Boston on Monday to watch the marathon (one of my friends is running in it!), visiting my doctor for my final college physical (I’m more excited that I should be because it contains the word “college”), and I hope to gather a group of some local MIT kids sometime.

Thank god for caffeine.