When Everyone Screams for Motivation

"Dear all,
I still seem to be four essays short! 6 if you include last week's...."

an excerpt from the email sent by my bmb supervisor at 5.30pm earlier. the essay was due 5.00pm the day before. i just handed in mine 15 min ago. there were 4 of us in his supervision group...

three days ago, my cdb supervisor asked if we have read the 'light reading' (i.e. review articles that are at least 8 pages long) that he gave us the previous week. my supervision partner answered 'i flicked through it...' before the supervisor interupted in disbelief 'FLICKED THROUGH IT?' . he sort of pleaded us to read the articles with the words 'PLEASe, PLEASE read my presents ' at least three times during the one hour session.
he gave us another two presents before we left.

it is week 6 of lent term. struggling to catch up is the norm. i am not sure if i am looking forward to term ending though; i have 4 assessed practical writeups and an assessed presentation due just before the end of term. furthermore, end of lent marks easter, which co-incidentally starts with the same big E.