0. I really can't do this this year. For whatever reason, essays are entirely beyond me; it's not that I don't understand them (though that is part of the problem in some cases), it's that I just can't write them... I label the papers and then leave them blank and that's all I can do. "Just start with a couple sentences" doesn't work; I can't even start the first sentence. Taking out all the papers involved with it only overwhelm me more.
I have two essays due tomorrow; I can't afford to blow either of them off. One would mean an automatic F in the class; the other would be a 0 out of 100 in a class that automatically kicks anyone out who doesn't have a B- or above... I'm all ready at a B as it is, and that's only by luck and automatic rounding up (82.8; it counts as a B). The latter has to be at least 4 to 6 pages or "don't even consider bringing it in". If I can't write one page - one sentence even - how am I supposed to write 4? And I'm told "they're not going away. Just do it", which would be all fine and good, except I can't. Which is kinda the point.
I think perhaps tomorrow morning I'll go and talk to the guidance counselor... Which will suck, because it means swallowing my pride (he said last year that I wouldn't be able to keep up with the stress of the schoolwork; he was wrong then, but he's not now), and I'm really not so good at that. I don't mind admitting when I'm wrong, but I don't like living up to predictions of failure... And I really don't want to cry (especially right before class), but I'm sure I will; I'm crying at the drop of a hat again, which isn't appealing to me.
That doesn't write the papers though, and I'll still fail; even if they drop my classes, I'll still have to write essays, and I still won't be able to do them. Joyous.
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Three years!