i have a lot i need to do in the next few days. but then when i think of how badly i'm doing, how i just can't seem to get it, how i need to understand to do well, it just upsets me. thus, i just don't do anything and put it off until i absolutely need to.

what is this key ingredient that i am so desperately missing? i know the basics, but what can i do if most of the points come intuitive knowledge? what can i do if i'm being graded on something i may or may not have already learned? i understand what and where he's getting the numbers, but this is situation based. just because he does something in X situation, doesn't mean it will even apply on Z problem he throws at us on tests. it might. but it most likely won't and we need to intuitively know what to do. 

i know my problems are small and even absurd compared to what is going on with the world and other people's lives, but i just hate this feeling. i don't know how to fix it and my professor just tells me that i need to just look over the work.