Being a student = stress

[mothwing]

Do you see my icon?
That volvox, that is my head. And the daughter cells are the stuff I have to learn for the exams. More of those and it's all going to burst. At the moment it's all fitting neatly, or so it seems, but it's all going to tear up at one point. Or so I think.

I am seriously fed up with stupid learning by heart for stupid courses. Honestly, its friggin' DIDACTICS. These people are telling us how seriously demotivating evaluation through one big exam at the end is and then tell us about the horrors they have in store for us next week. Once more we are learning useless scraps of information we are NEVER going to need for anything.
German tertiary education seriously needs a gigcantic didactic spring makeover. Didactics courses for didactics professors might be a good start. Booooy.
We are learning didactics ex negativo, starting of prime historical examples of how NOT to teach.Why do I need to know that? What does it matter which concepts failed in the past? I'd be interested in what we are to do TODAY.

This week:
Friday: Exam in German Didactics I.

Next week:
Monday: oral report on the history of the influence of English on German in Linguistics. Not hard, but annoying.
Tuesday: oral report (90 min) on Michael Toolan's Narratology - A Critical Linguistic Introduction - all of us, my two partners and me, can't help wondering in howfar this title is justified... It is about Narratology, but it is not critical, does not introduce and is not all that much linguistic. Meaning we do not really have all that much to say.
Wednesday: Exam in paedagogic psychology.
Thursday: Exam in German Didactics
Friday: Exam in medieval German literature.

Oh, and then there is the transcript, the two term papers and an excerpt. Yayz. I have three weeks for the first paper. Can anyone tell me why in the name of any deity who feels responsible why I joyously crammed eleven courses into my curriculum this semester? Some of the people in my semester have friggiin' six.
What is dangerous is that I somehow manage to overlook the fact that I am not sleeping properly or that I am stressed at all. And then I catch one cold after another. But that's only going to happen and the end of the semester.