School :(

[Lindsey]

Hey girls, I just need to vent because I'm SO STRESSED OUT! I'm graduating finally in December, and on top of the heavy heavy courseload this semester, I'm also working on my final technical project in my free time. In December I have to present this project to all the engineering students, faculty, and people from the industry. My project is the structural design of a three-storey arts center.
My project advisor happens to be the head of the engineering department. He is expecting SO MUCH from me! Especially after approving a classmate's idea to just design a deck for a house! After submitting my proposal, he wasn't happy that I wanted to use steel for the whole structure, saying that might be too easy. I told him I'd research more and think about it. I set up a meeting for this morning to interview another instructor of mine with a PhD in structural engineering. He told me steel would be the best to use. I had another meeting this morning (thank goodness for cancelled classes!) with my advisor. He told me to find a more complex design! Basically, he told me to find an architect's design that looks all artsy and crazy and decide how to make it work structurally! For goodness sake, I'm not even an engineer! I'm a technologist! This project has to be done in a month - beam, column, joist, bolt, and weld designs. ONE month. I don't even have a plan yet
I think I'm going to sit down in December, and sleep for a month.