A Quarter I’d Like to Lock Away

Is there anything about this past quarter that has not been said? No.

Amidst a polar vortex, a pandemic, inflexible school-wide grading policies, winter 2021 was rough. In terms of fatigue, physical and mental exhaustion, no quarter has come close to this. I am frankly just drained. And I feel like now I’m just getting a chance to look at how everything went as a whole, from then to now.

The first few weeks of the quarter were surprisingly mellow. I had felt like I was on top of everything and was pacing myself well. My readings were really up my alley and it seemed like winter was gonna be a step-up from fall. And then, as expected, the weather just went downhill and Zoom finally got to me. It almost felt as though we had returned to spring 2020, where ZoomU was all new, and I had nowhere near the energy to be as present. During the coldest parts of the quarter where I wasn’t leaving the house to go study at a library, every single day felt the same:

1) wake-up routine + breakfast
2) go to class
3) make lunch
4) go to class
5) work
6) dinner
7) more work
8) night-time routine + sleep