Students! How do you stay calm and motivated?

LadyZephyr

So I've got a very important essay due Monday, and my teacher is going to base her reference for my University applications on it. Thing is, I was extremely sick at the time of it being assigned, missed a couple of classes, before my doctor made me take time off to recover, during the time when I was supposed to write my essay.

This resulted in the teacher (thankfully) giving me an extension on my due date, but she has refused to give me any help at all, so I'm not only without as much information as the rest of the class had but without guidance, as the rest of the class had. (She looked at everyones rough drafts and corrected them etc, but did not do this for me, so I'm completely blind on this)

As well as feeling horrifically victimised for something beyond my control, I'm stressed to hell. I've got over half the work done, but now I'm staring at my screen envisioning being rejected from every University I apply for. It doesn't help that I have really bad anxiety too.

How do you keep calm enough and motivated to complete your work?

vtmoon

Take a deep breath and remember what your end goal is.

VelveteenArabian

If the important of the essay isn't enough to motivate you to work on it then I don't know what will.

Check if your school has a writing center or a tutor who could look the paper over for you before you turn it in.

I keep motivated to do my schoolwork because the sooner I get it done the less time I have to spend worrying over it. There's other things I would rather be doing.

wolverine66