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I am lowkey losing my mind trying to keep up with all my assignments this semester. I am in my third year of computer science, and this term is just brutal. Between debugging this cursed group project in React (don’t even get me started) and prepping for a midterm in algorithms, I’ve also got two massive essays due in the same week. Like… how do people manage this??

I signed up for this "Ethics in Technology" elective thinking it’d be a chill filler course. Big mistake. The prof is super intense and expects full-blown academic term papers. I respect it, but I was not prepared for the amount of reading and research it requires. It’s not like I can just wing it like in some of my coding labs. Writing a solid paper takes actual brainpower and time, and right now, I’ve got zero of both.

So, I’m wondering how do you all deal with this kind of workload when the tech and non-tech assignments pile up? Do you time-block? Pull all-nighters? Cry in the shower? (jk but also not really)

Also, not gonna lie, I was this close to googling term paper writing help services the other night. I didn’t go through with it, but it’s kinda tempting when you’re slammed and just need something off your plate. Like, I’d never want to submit something I didn’t write myself, but some kind of outline or structure from a term paper helper sounds kind of clutch. Has anyone here ever tried that kind of service? Is it sketchy or actually helpful if you use it right?

Anyway, just curious how other dev students are managing the non-tech side of their programs. I feel like there's a ton of support for coding questions (shoutout Stack Overflow and GitHub), but way less talk about handling the writing-heavy parts of our courses. And yeah, writing is a skill too, but it’s so different from what we usually do.

Would love to hear if anyone has tips for writing faster, staying focused, or like, just surviving the end-of-term crunch without burning out. And if anyone knows a way to automate MLA citations, please drop that knowledge because manually formatting them is the actual worst.

Also, if anyone else is in a similar boat (especially in Canadian unis), let’s rant together lol.