Still Procrastinating

Gah..half way across the world and I'm still procrastinating with manga and dramas. I should be going out and exploring Hong Kong but it's just too hard to get rid of old habits. Why does HKU love making us do presentations. Each class has at least one and I hate doing it! Ugh! TAing for genetics one quarter hasn't made me any better at public speaking. So much work to do....if only this really was a vacation. *rant rant*

At the beginning of the school year, I felt that courses were a bit slow with only two hours of lecture for each course each week so I didn't really try to keep up, but now all the assessments are all bunched up in the next couple of weeks. I haven't done any work really and it's really going to be a bitch to catch up. My cell biology class has a final exam worth 80% and I have a lab report due in 8 days. I have two presentations this Thursday (50 min lead tutorial with a 20-30 min presentation at the beginning and 3 min for my contagions and disease class), another the week after that, and another on the Tuesday after that. The more I feel pressured to do work, the more I feel like procrastinating. I'm starting to feel a bit stressed here.

Now I'm beginning to think about the things I have to do back in the real world. I have to apply to get into a lab when I get back to the States. I have to try to get a TA position (I don't even know what to TA for besides genetics). I have to pick classes for winter quarter. Finally, I have to maintain a decent GPA so I can still apply to medical and get into somewhere decent. Just thinking about what I have to do once I get back is making me feel even more stressed. *sigh*

I'm also starting to wonder what exactly I'm doing in Hong Kong. Am I supposed to learn something from this experience? I haven't really talked to the locals so I don't exactly know the culture here. I haven't been to that many places in Hong Kong so I don't feel like I've actually lived here for two months already. What exactly am I doing? What am I trying to achieve? If I am asked what I learned from my abroad experience, what do I say? I really wish this was just a vacation with no responsibility.