Finals: Or how I should take this cyanide pill

I've got some work to do for finals. Luckily I have no exams, but this is my final week and I've procrastinated on my major assignments.

The biggest ones are to create a character for my character design class and a C++ program using Windows and DirectX.

The thing about my character design class is that it's all been theory stuff up until about two weeks ago. Then, out of nowhere, my teacher assigns an assignment that would make even a first year animation student (I'm in first year game dev.) break a sweat. Create a character based on an existing game character, do a character rotation of them (front view, side view, 3/4 front view, and back), three dynamic action poses, six facial expressions, and three poses showing body language.

It may not sound like too much, but he hasn't even taught us how to do this. I had to go to a workshop on drawing characters to figure out what to do, but I doubt most people will be as well off as I am.

My other project, for C++, probably won't be too bad, but our teacher has kind of an interesting system he uses to create groups for group projects. He tries to pair up weaker programmers with stronger ones, and this time around I'm supposed to be the "expert" of my group. Unfortunately, I'm totally lost on Windows programming, and I first touched DirectX a few days ago. Since my group members know even less than I do, this is basically going to be a solo effort.

Plus on top of that, I've got an overdue assignment or two to take care of before Friday. I'm sure I'll get it all done, though.

Jam it back in, in the dark.