Dear Anita

I spent the weekend outlining my notes for chapters 2&3 and reviewing chapter 1 for the genetics quiz today and I got a 6/10 which isn’t the best grade but there is still time in the semester to improve. For my Organic Chemistry quiz that I took on Friday January 31st, I received a 71 on it which is slightly better than the genetics quiz. I will likely start the research summary for my meditation class tomorrow since it’s due Thursday February 6th. My Organic Chemistry professor just assigned another assignment that is due on Wednesday February 5th and I have an online quiz for Organic Chemistry lecture class due Friday February 7th. I am feeling quite overwhelmed with the school work currently. Tomorrow is lab experiment two for Organic Chemistry lab and I haven’t done the Prelab for the experiment or written the lab report for experiment 1 that is due tomorrow yet because I am just too tired and feeling lightheaded from only getting five hours of sleep last night. I emailed my Organic Chemistry lab professor saying that I think that I will miss lab class tomorrow because I am under lot of pressure and hoping for an extension on the assignments, but he said that just talking with the counselors on campus about anxiety is not a valid excuse for a lab absence and points will be taken off from my lab grade if I miss lab tomorrow. In addition to the school stress, my car has problems with the acceleration and has been slow to accelerate at times so I’m getting it fixed. I did manage to finish the reading on the brain in meditation for my morning meditation class tomorrow and I finished one online quiz for Organic Chemistry lab. I also finished my lab notes for genetics lab and also completed an online quiz for genetics lab. I am trying to work my assignments but I feel quite strained and am thinking that I need to take a break from Organic Chemistry lab tomorrow. Missing two lab assignments (lab 1 and 2) and one quiz may affect my grade, but it’s still early in the semester so I’m hoping that I can pick up my grades. I would like to attend the Organic Chemistry lab tomorrow and complete experiment two and submit the assignments but I am just feeling too overwhelmed. My body is shaking from the tiredness that I feel and the anxiety is making it difficult to focus. Hoping for some advice, thank you!