Hello,

So it has been awhile since I posted any of significance here.

School has been dominating my life, and lately the feeling of despair is drowning me.

I cannot seem to cope very well with stress. The things that I do to cope with stress: exercising, chatting with friends, sleeping, eating random delicacies, talking on the phone, reading the newspaper, writing in my journal... they all help but sometimes the stress is just so overwhelming that anything I do doesn't help.

Carnegie Mellon University's stress levels are, well, pretty high, especially if you are in the School of Computer Science where they have super annoying classes like Great Theoretical Ideas of CS that take up 20+ hours of your life in terms of homework. Sigh. Everyone is struggling too, but I feel like I'm struggling more than usual.

I scheduled an appointment with a counselor. Hopefully this helps.