Sell Your Soul

There come times when you must sell your soul in order to get ahead of the curve or stay in the game. I have done just that this weekend in order to stay afloat in this week of many tasks. Yesterday, Friday, I worked all afternoon after an 8-5 day at school (without so much as a half-hour break) well into the evening—1:00 am, to be precise—in order to finish work that I was assigned more than a month ago. Then, I woke up early today to start work on that very same project, slaving away without fun or company from friends. No going out, not even some TV. Work. Work. Work. By noon today, I was making wonderful headway into the pile of tasks set before me, and low and behold by 3:00 pm I had finished the majority of the undertaking. Not that bad.

With that obstacle behind me, I now stare at a mountain of other items on my list: med school secondaries, physical chemistry problem set, differential equations homework, two mid-terms next week (in physical chemistry and differential equations, no less), labs and quizzes to grade, and anatomy terms to learn by Tuesday. Oh, I almost forgot that I have a formal lab report due in Chemical Synthesis, so no fun tonight.

I have sold my soul, but I will not concede defeat now or ever. Selling one’s soul is the price that must be paid to avoid a cataclysmic, total failure.