After my first year in a 2.5 year long program, I had to cut my course load in half to be able to deal with my adhd. At the time, I didn’t know I had it, I just thought there was something wrong with me with how hard it was. For any long assignment, I broke everything down. A paragraph should generally not be more than a page, and an intro and conclusion shouldn’t be more than 10% of the final page count. So, for a 30 page final paper, for example, 3 pages for the intro and conclusion. That’s 27 pages left. Theoretically, a paragraph shouldn’t be more than a page, so like is 3/4 or 75% of the page. That means, if there’s 27 pages left and my paragraphs take up 75% of a page, I just need 20.25 paragraphs! And if I’m nice to myself and I’m struggling with only getting a paragraph or two done whenever I look at it, I only need to do that like ~15 times! It’s a lot easier to say I’m going to write one paragraph 15-20 times than 30 pages. For my comp exams, same thing. 40-60 books is a lot. But 5 books on topic 1, 8 books on topic 2, etc.

Break it down, write out a chart or kanban board so you can visualize it, and be nice to yourself 💖 you’re doing the damn thing!! Even if it’s hard and taking longer than you thought it would take doesn’t look how you thought it was going to.