First I want to say that the posts will continue! Secondly, I am obviously still alive. That’s been evident due to the comments I have been leaving and low effort posts I have made.

The reason why I stopped posting the chronicles is because Semester 6 really kicked my ass. The classes weren’t even hard content wise but the way each was structured gave me very little wiggle room. The assignments piled up in a way that made it difficult to keep posting and crank out my work on time. Thankfully I was not the only one struggling this semester as other students have lamented about the same issues and even my Canadian history professor told us that this semester was kicking his ass. So at least I was not alone. I can only hope that I can use my experience through this semester to prepare for the next ones. I am taking very senior level courses (400 level if that means anything to you, I know every country is different) so I can only imagine that the work load is going to increase.

A good thing about that is most of my professors will be familiar, so they can’t get rid of me just yet! That’s also nice because it means they know my temperament and work style well enough to make accommodations if I need them, which I probably will. The amount of extensions I needed this semester would make you sign, because wow. I needed extensions for my extensions it was that bad. Im the kind of person that is not good at multitasking, my brain needs to do one thing at a time, which is terrible when assignments are set up in a way where there are only a few days before each due date. Research for a paper? Sure, I can find multiple sources in a day for different papers. Writing the paper? I need a day exclusive for each, I do not know why I am like this.

I am hoping that the spring/summer accelerated semester and the few months of break before Fall will help me a bit in fixing my bad habits. We will have to see, of course. Since Semester 6 is done I am just going to work on uploading the missed chronicles entries (remember all the info is taken from my written notes, where I also document the weird shit my professor and fellow students say so you won’t be missing anything!) and I will be doing my self-taught Russian lessons lol. I got a few books that have great reviews, plus I have the app that someone recommended to learn Cyrillic. Have any of you heard of the books “Russian through propaganda”? It’s made by a guy with a PhD and has video lessons, so thats nice. I know I will have to get a tutor at some point, but I need some time before that, just to get situated and comfortable, plus my anxiety is acting up (also money…). Maybe the Russian school in my city is still open. Hopefully it is. I’ll try to make my way down there this week to see since google is giving me NOTHING. Also I can finally watch those old Soviet films you suggested too.

So, thats the update. Look forward to more posts and maybe I will make some about semester 7 (spring/summer) since I only have two courses and one of them is online (pre-recorded). One of the courses is about the Celtic circle (or something like that) before the 1800s. The other course is another Topics in Polisci class but instead of East Asia it’s going to be about something else. How do I know? Because it’s a different professor and she seems to write papers about gender, so I am assuming the class will be related to that. I also already enrolled in my Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 courses so maybe I will make a post about them I the near future just to maybe get some reading material before they start. Anyway I am looking forward to these last few semesters and I hope you all do too, I know I ramble a lot so I am going to try and reel that back.