Not all suicide notes look the same

The provocative title to this post was from a commercial about how dangerous eating disorders can become. On a more humorous note, I am referring the act known as academic suicide (which to some people *cough* Asians! *cough* is basically the same as suicide since without education you will be stuck in a useless career for the rest of your life). There are two variants to academic suicide: the short way and the long way. The short way is well known and heavily prevented by most academic institutions. It is of course intellectual dishonesty or as most people know it, cheating. The long way, much less prevented, is the path I find myself in at the moment(do not worry about my safety as I am only speaking metaphorically, at the moment anyway). I like to call this method over-achiever syndrome, which is just as dangerous but only develops after a period of time under certain conditions. These circumstances include: taking too many courses, taking courses you already got credit for just in case there was something you could miss out on, taking 3 hour blocks of night courses, studying for extracurricular reasons such as the PCAT to get into pharmacy school. Unfortunately, this semester is a perfect storm of all 4 conditions for me. Also unfortunately, if I get into the pharmacy program my semesters will become more and more loaded with courses (up above 40 credits). Alas, even my summers will be riddled with courses and internships. While I will probably get through this all and be able to laugh at it one day (hopefully not a crazy laugh), I just had my first night class and it is not sitting very well with me. Let's first forget that it is 3 hours long at night. The professor who teaches the course (I'm not going to mention his/her name because I am not stupid and do not want to commit academic suicide the fast way)annoys me very much. It is not the fact that he will not give us his email to contact him, did not even introduce himself until 1 and a half hours into the lecture and shuns all technology save for the overhead projector. No, the thing that annoys me is that is how this professor speaks and surprisingly it is not his/her accent. It is the fact that he/she speaks in the slowest manner I can possibly imagine. I mean literally 15 seconds between sentences. And it is not like he/she pauses and then strings together words eloquently like say Barack Obama. He/She completes a mundane sentence after a 15 second pause with a phrase like "Of course this is up for interpretation." It is also agonizing to wait for the words to come because you don't know when they will and instead you are left watching his/her annoying facial gestures (like he/she is thinking really really hard) only to have that come out of his/her mouth. Does it seem like I am ranting? That is the first sign of overachiever syndrome.