Does this every happen to any of you? This morning was great, I fixed some bugs in my research project and made progress for the first time in a month. But as usual, progress only lasted an hour, and I got stuck. It's that TOM, and getting stuck brought out all my frustrations with grad school. I went from "Yay, I fixed a bug!" to "I am a complete failure in life and will never do anything worthwhile" in about 15 minutes. I know that part of these feelings are just being amplified by TOM, but I've also become convinced more and more every day I am here that I want to leave grad school after next year (when I will get a masters) and that it was a mistake to come to grad school after college in the first place.

Anyway, I was very lucky that I had brought along some yogurt w/cheerios in it as a pre-workout snack because oh man, the need to eat hit. I wasn't even hungry and I knew it, but I pulled out the yogurt and started stuffing my face. I can't imagine what I would have done if I didn't have yogurt, I probably would have gone to the vending machine and gotten chocolate or something.

I feel a little better now (pep-talk email from my boyfriend helped), and I'm getting ready to leave for the gym, but I was just wondering if any of you have this experience where a day is going great in the morning, then becomes really crappy afterward.

Of course everyone goes through these times. It just means your normal. We are only human you know...

Cheer Up! sounds like you could use a nice massage, why don't you enlist bf!!

I go through that all the time. Some days I wonder if I have a personalitiy disorder or somthing because it happens so fast. I will be so happy and cheerful and then bam! next thing I know I am totally down in the dumps. It sucks and ussually not much will get me out of it fast. I have been tyring to avoid giving into these feelings by not binge eating and not giving up on things. Some times i use it as an out not to finish something or start something.
You arn't the ony one, and I'm sure grad school isn't a picinic in the park everyday either. I went to grad school right after undergrad and I was so miserable, I was completly burnt out, and should have waited. I moved out of my house with my friends and got an appartment, piggedout on food, gainded weight, got pregnant, and stoped going to class ( I think some of it was the hormones from being prego). I'm suprised I even graduated. So remeber, you arn't as bad as you feel right now, you are as good as you were feeling earlier