The time is currently 05:10AM in a bed in Wales, United Kingdom. If I'm being honest it's that time in all beds that reside in the Greenwich mean time zone. If you haven't seen by now or already know, my name is Caleb. If you've come here to find the answers to your Marx essay I'm afraid you won't find it. I am a second year BA(Hons) Sociology student at the university of Derby and I hate reading but love listening, I feel that writing is somewhere in between, topic depending.
I like the idea of talking about my life... but I don't really like people so I guess this will do. I am kind of nocturnal but not really happy about it, nothing gets done when your natural waking up time is 3-5PM but I'm also quite fond of that. I was extraordinarily tired at 1:30AM and there's a fair reason for that, but more later. for the last 4 hours I have been watching vlogs from students at the university of Oxford and Cambridge and found them incredibly fascinating and in some aspects relatable. So I went looking for vlogs, blogs, accounts or anything really that wasn't marketing crap from the University of Derby. I also couldn't really find anything interesting on the life of a sociology student so here I am. This has brought me here in some sort of hope to find other students, maybe even sociology students that share or completely disagree with some of my thoughts and general ideas about university, family, the future and life.
I really am a phenomenal procrastinator. 96% of my teachers have told me that I'm intelligent and talented but lazy including my mum (who is also a teacher and taught me for 2 years). The reason I was tired at 1:30AM was because I had only had 4 hours sleep the night before. I spent the whole of yesterday writing my 2000 word qualitative research proposal that was due in at 11:59PM but I've had the whole year to prepare for it and write it but of course I chose to spend 1 week writing 500 words then do the whole of it on the last day. So I guess I should take you through that day a little...
I set my alarm to wake up at 12PM which gave me 4 hours sleep because as I mentioned I'm nocturnal. Now what this means is I set my alarms for 11:45, 11:50, 11:55 and 12PM. You'd hope that after those alarms I'd wake up but no. I'm a ridiculously heavy sleeper and when I'm tired I can fall asleep on a cliff edge. My alarms continued for another 2 hours... yes you did read that correctly, my alarms continued to go off every 5 minutes for another hour and then every 10 minutes for another hour. I managed to pull myself out of bed at the 12:40 alarm and with the immediate recognition of my horrific state of tiredness I got up and drove to Tesco to acquire as much snacks, sugar and caffeine as I could get.
First on the list was Monster, and lots of it. I got 4 cans, crisps, various different types of chocolate and chocolate milk (chocolate is my addiction alongside my bed and my love for mixed martial arts). Then proceeded to procrastinate a little bit more because although I has 1500 words and my appendix to do, my brain justified it because I had just under 11 hours until the deadline and my brain doesn't understand the concept of doing the work to get it out of the way or 'do it now then you have all that time to yourself' ... yeah but I have all that time to myself now...
I eventually got started, by the way the research question I chose was 'To what extent do teachers' attitudes influence students educational achievements?' very basically, I was looking into teachers attitudes towards gender, race and ability and the effect of that on students grades. I very slowly got through the first 200 words of the day which put me at 700, that took me about 3 hours. I then decided to complain to snapchat and my friend told me to man up which sent me on a 7 hour session of watching those motivational videos on YouTube and basically felt like superman and powered through my essay. I submitted my essay at 11:43PM which is 16 minutes from the deadline but I wasn't worried about it at all and took several breaks in between and got it all done comfortably. I consumed 2 cans of monster, 1 bag of chocolate and one big bag of crisps. A successful day in all.
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