Being a grad student sucks

I read almost 100 pages of quantum mechanics today. This was after failing miserably to do my math methods homework, which is taught by the worst professor I have ever had. He talks about theorems but never writes down what they are. He doesn't give us any examples that are similar to the homework, so I can't do it. All my classmates have seen this stuff before, so they've all done it. I also only slept for 3.5 hours last night, since I couldn't fall asleep after finishing my mechanics homework, which took a good 15 hours to do. I have so much work for the next 1.5 weeks, since midterms are upon us. Well, more than the barely manageable workload I have normally. There is also a professor here who reminds me of Tanenbaum, right down to the similar research they do. If you've heard me talk about Tanenbaum, you know my thoughts. This man is similarly a douchebag, although he is named Phil Collins, which is kind of fabulous. Out of everyone I've talked to, I'm the only person that is taking three graduate level courses, and all of them are in physics. Everyone is simultaneously freaking out about the quals (which are in April at the earliest), and midterms, which start Wednesday. And I don't even have to TA. I don't know what I'm going to do next quarter. The shock of attending a large institution still hasn't really worn off.

I wish I could make protected posts here, because if I could be sure certain people weren't reading I would have a whole lot more to rant about, but I don't want to anger people.