Overwhelmed with writing essays and other commitments

I feel like an outlier with this stuff. I did not find university overwhelming at all - I just planned around it so everything was fine. I suppose I had an advantage in that I'd worked for 6 or 7 years prior, so to me the organisation and holding myself to account was entirely normal. If this was me, all three would be done by now. I was well on top of that stuff.

One big tip - reference as you go. Don't wait till the end. MS Word has a tool that you can edit via macro commands and XML to do stuff exactly how you want it to.

Any university student will be familiar with the feeling of being overwhelmed, and feeling like there is a lack of control.

Now, I would say that I am a very organised person: I organise how, and when, I am going to do something in order to make things easier for myself. That said, I am still struggling with the fact that I have three essays due later this week.

They are all planned — they just need to be written up and referenced. Despite this, I'm still feeling overwhelmed. The writing up of these essays will take a fair bit of energy and concentration by themselves. Then the referencing, I find really stressful. I had thought of literally scheduling time to do these two or three separate things; the writing, the editing, and the referencing. That said, it would be very helpful to hear about other people's experiences of the build-up of overwhelm, and the building of stress, as it comes closer to a deadline. I seem to feel quite stressed about the deadlines whether I'm organised or not (though being organised does help).