Do you ever find that the more assessments and deadlines you have to meet, the more likely you are to find irrelevant things more interesting or more important?

If yes, read on. If no, well, uh... You're pretty amazing.

And for me?

Last Sunday it resulted in me spending around six hours choreographing a 30 second piece for a dance class I was running. But time doesn't stop for you, and as much as you want your assessments to be over you just have to power through.

What I would be doing if I suddenly became sleepy.

Something that I've realised (once again) over the last few weeks is that being very busy can be both a blessing and a curse, and it takes a lot of self-control to manage but also to look after your health and to make sure you don't cross your limits. Being busy helps you organise your time into digestible blocks of time which then helps you study - time pressure is always useful. But the flipside is that if you don't leave enough time to study or blocks of time for yourself to focus, then you tend to collapse.

Keep smiling! But please do talk to someone if something isn't okay.

It's been a bit of a balancing act for me over the last week with things like:

• assessments (since I only had 2 in the first seven weeks of semester)
• Law Revue AGM (where I presented a speech and Q&A for Producer and I'll be back again next year to try again)
• Photo shoot with my internship for our #1newplus2 campaign 
• the usual study workload, internship workload and work itself.

There's been quite a few moments where I almost lose hope and I want to give up because I'm just so tired. Fast forward to today where I sat in a library, sleepy but not sleep-deprived and unable to focus on my 3000 word final portfolio for my arts assessment that is due on Sunday at 4pm - I keep telling myself that it will be over soon and that I need to get this done, but as we all know, that's more difficult than it sounds.

I've also found myself seeking the company of others more often, and it's becoming difficult because so many people are studying and I can't seem to locate them (or when I can, my mind is too scattered to study). But it will be done soon, and I can get onto exploring more of Sydney, redecorating my room, changing the look of this blog, reading and colouring in. I'm excited!

"I'm only highlighting what's important!" More like colouring in...

Look after yourselves friends - assessments are upon us but the end is near, and that signals freedom! Tell me how you're going in the comments below. Good luck, and see you soon.