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I'm sorry in advance for the neuroticism lol. Because I was verified later on July 23, I got almost all of my secondaries on July 24. I've been trying to get it all done before the recommended two-week deadline, but as of today I've only submitted five out of the 26 secondaries I've received. I am so overwhelmed/stressed bc I feel like I'm already late enough to be at a disadvantage compared to earlier applicants. This has led me to writing, editing, and submitting within the span of a few hours, and I'm worried that doing them in such a short time is making my essays bad. However, I know that spending more time might not even improve my work because I am prone to getting stuck in the review/editing "this isn't good enough" loop. I'm most nervous about not having anyone else look at them before I submit, but I can't ask my one friend who reviews my essays to do so much for me in such little time.
My two options that I can see are:
My two options that I can see are:
- finish at least the 20 I care about most by the end of the week and work faster with a more "**** it, we ball" perspective. not saying i'm going to be producing garbage essays, but not worrying so much about making them perfect might lead to lower quality.
- take my time and finish them all by around August 18 (likely in order of how much I want to go to each school). giving myself more time might help me catch more mistakes/improve my work, but it also has a moderately high chance of leading me to get stuck on perfectionism and then being in the same situation I am now with 50000 essays to do and no time, just later.
- I also don't have much time to write, because I'm working 12-hour night shifts and have a time-consuming medical treatment going on, so I feel like slowing down is going to make things take too long.