the following is a journal entry he includes in his book. and yeah, there’s been a lot of times i feel like this. actually probably more now, in my 3rd semester, than i in the first 2.
The time is six minutes past ten. I have worked all day, rising at 7:00, attending class from 8:00 until 11:45, eating a quick lunch, returning to class from 1:20 until 3:05, doing some quick shopping at the grocery store, going for a quick run, microwaving a quick dinner, and then entering my pantry office to study. I probably have another five hours of work to go, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to complete it because I feel too old.
I don’t mean I feel my full thirty-one years. I mean I feel eighty or ninety – old. My joints are stiff, I have trouble remembering what I did the day before yesterday, I doze off intermittently, and I find that I keep checking myself over, the way really old people are always looking for things to tell the doctor.