Mentally exhausted

Yup this semester SUCKS. I was forewarned and it is true. Second is known as the make it or break it semester and your grades literally go from good in first to EH not so hot. You put in double the work and after the first two exams you really question your confidence and ability. The morale of our class has gone down as a whole and you can really see the exhaustion setting in. Our days start everyday at 8 am and go to around 5 or 6 and could even be longer if you have tutoring or TA sessions (which I do). Most of the TA sessions are on Saturdays and Sundays so we are basically in school 7 days a week. My glorious beach life that I portray has completely subsided until further notice. I am doing whatever I can to make it through this semester and move onto third, it is definitely going to be a rough one. To go along with not having a life my family thinks I have completely disappeared off of the face of the earth which is also due to the semester. I feel horrible but it is the price I pay to being here and I have to keep reminding myself that this is only temporary. Before I came to Ross I was warned about hell weeks and last week I can say was an absolute hell week. We had a Physiology exam on Monday and a Parasitology exam Wednesday, everyday I was gone for almost 12 hours, and I found out my pups have gotten Coccidia from being here (we have only been here for a month). I am hoping that I don't have anymore hell weeks this semester but I doubt it lol. On the bright side, in about 2 more weeks we will officially be half way through the semester THANK GOD and a little bit closer to being home in April. This month also marks 6 months since I moved here which I cannot believe and almost one year since I got the phone call that I was accepted into school. No matter how hard my days are I can't forget how lucky I am to be here.