: Long day at work. Sorted a mountain of mail from 8am-11am which got me off to a really late start on the route they taught me. Then I had those lovely scratch and win Used Car adds which are individually addressed so you can't just go all willy nilly and toss one in each box and instead have to work from the pile watching for the occasional address skip . Was on the road from 11am to 7pm getting that crap out. What kind of blows as well is even though I worked 11.5 hours I only get paid for 8. Hopefully I get lucky next week and get a small load first time in a long time I've had box holders on a Saturday.Really starting to feel down at work I'm the slowest person there, but at the same time I feel like that is mostly because I'm not cutting corners and actually trying to be safe on the road.
Two of my classes are slowly killing me. Accounting I feel like I understand, even while doing the work, but my grades prove I know jack-squat about the subject. And Italian Cinema... there haven't been any grades posted yet, and everyone else in the class is just as lost as me as far as how we are doing and understanding the subject. We're finding that we don't exactly know for sure what she wants us to get out of it all, and there's been more than one case where we have misunderstood her or she has misunderstood us. Part of that is the slight language barrier coming from the professor dropping into Italian at times, or not knowing how to translate an idea, or on our end, using phrases or ideas that don't translate well into the Italian equivalent and cause her to think we said something different.
You're a smart dude, so I'm sure you're doing better than you're giving your self credit for. Personal anecdote time, when I was in college I often found it to be the case that my level of success was not related to whether I inherently knew more (I didn't) or was smarter (I wasn't) than the rest of the class, but rather was directly related to whether I was willing to work harder than them. In this regard, your agricultural background puts you leagues ahead of a lot of these kids who have never had to get their hands dirty, much less work from sun up to sundown.