I have a problem.  I don't think I can take being in school anymore: the classes are boring but difficult, and I'm tired of being tired.  What should I do?

Exhausted in the Stacks

Dear Stacks,

I completely empathize with your plight.  There have been times when I too have felt tired and wretched - so much that even the miraculous appearance of free food in the hard lounge couldn't cheer me up.   It sounds like you need a new spin on your perspective.  Stop viewing your studies as a means unto themselves, but as stepping stones towards your own personal versions of success and happiness.  Viewing your classes as the training tools for your future has a much more invigorating effect than viewing them as academic obligations.

To explain, let me show you how I label the classes that I am taking or am planning to in the future:

Corporations: How to establish your own empire.

Criminal Procedure: Learning the lingo of Law and Order.

Torts: How to get rich by carrying around a bag of banana peels.

Negotiations a.k.a. "Making an offer you can't refuse": How to become an effective consiglieri.

Legal Drafting: Time to ogle "that" person (who is he or she in your class?).

It is silly.  But silly is what holds so many of us together until our next caffeine break.  So, dear Stacks, to answer your query in short: stop frowning, and just start ogling.

Sincerely,

Yunji