Into the Strenuous Briefness

• The fifth grade book report where I made a board game and ended up having to re-do it because it was so bad the first time
• The reading journals in fifth grade
• The terrible sixth grade science project about leaves (I think? I remember being out in the yard at like 5 in the morning collecting stuff for a collage)
• The sixth grade book report that had me building a diarama (or maybe a mobile?) well into the night
• The seventh grade report on a country in Africa that I finished the morning of (got myself up early to finish it; Dad made fun of me)
• The eighth grade Constitution packet
• Studying for the honors genetics placement exam in ninth grade; I spent nearly 24 consecutive hours literally reading the entire biology textbook 
• The microbiology research paper in tenth grade
• The statistics project in tenth grade
• The reading journals for eleventh grade honors English
• Pretty much every presentation for senior honors English
• The physics homework from senior year, which I procrastinated so badly that I never actually did it
• All of independent study French 4
• The writing award essay my senior year (written the morning of; I won anyway)
• My reading journals freshmen year of college
• My first college lit paper
• Every subsequent college lit paper
• The first organic chem lab report (once was actually enough for that)
• My poster presentation for Undergrad Research
• My writing center research paper
• Studying for every biology exam
• The anatomy and physiology paper
• My senior biology paper
• Preparing problem sets for recitations
• The reading for Modern Lit
• Memorizing pathways in biochemistry
• Writing MAT unit plans
• Writing lesson plans for student teaching
• Writing my MAT thesis
• Writing my Knowles Fellowship application
• Writing lessons my first year of teaching
• Grading at the end of every quarter

And:

• Tonight, doing my Knowles portfolio