What keeps you motivated? I am in a real crappy end of semester situation now and now for some reason I thought I would post why because working all day has been giving me little progress. I have a presentation on Monday and the topic is Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence, which is supposed to serve as a prequel to my actual 20 page+ essay on Eternal Recurrence. I am having a hard time motivating myself to read all these sources and I find myself leaving the laptop and laying down more often than I should be. I am a horrible speaker in presentations. I stutter easily, and I am just generally very nervous and this will be my first 15 min + presentation. Luckily, I am not standing up, but having so many faces across the table staring at you is just as intimidating. I am slowly going insane from all this work. I found sources, wrote about them, but now I am a bit void of thought and I feel like I am being disorganised. I'm in a bad situation right now: Presentation Monday (15 mins) Essay draft (April 1st) and I barely started working on it, another essay on Nietzsche's other book for April 2nd, a report for the 31st, and another presentation and essay due in the middle of April. I am worried I will not have time to do everything because of stress. So, offtopic, what would you people do in this situation without going insane? I am a smart student but even I can use some tips! After this final stretch will be finals week ;_;