Hello, good afternoon. I'm reaching out because I have a day and a half to submit a dissertation for college and I feel far from finishing it. For context, I had difficulties adapting to university student life and with that I didn't know how to balance the readings I have - in most of the five subjects reading either little/nothing, or too rushed, without time to read more deeply (taking notes, thinking more in general) or without paying much attention in classes. Of course, I would have liked to have had a different outcome, but that wasn't the case.
In the situation I'm in now, I failed one of the subjects for not submitting a required dissertation on a text I didn't read and learned little about while I was in classes. I had about 12 days to read the text and work on it, but perhaps due to emotional numbness, I didn't lift a finger. The makeup deadline is one week: I read the text yesterday and two days ago, totaling 22 pages read. I think the professor worked with 30 or 40 pages total during the course.
The problem is that I feel anxious, I feel like it will take me a long time to read as much as necessary to complete the dissertation according to the "prompt" given by the professor, and I'm not at all confident in the quality of my dissertation, considering the conditions under which it's being done/will be done. I don't know what the consequences will be if I do poorly on the makeup, as I already predict I will anyway. And even so, reading the text itself already consumes me a bit and is slow - few pages read per reading session, which are already a bit too long, perhaps.

And all of this discourages me from continuing the work, or at least trusting in it and in myself. I didn't develop a good foundation during the ideal time and now I'm in an urgent situation without tools to deal with it. I need to do it, continue working on the text, but at the same time I don't trust it or myself, I don't feel motivated to do it even in this urgency - it doesn't make sense to do it when I'll fail at the task. I don't know if I expressed this in the most intelligible and non-repetitive way, but I need help.

>>33392372 (OP)
I won't read yet another I haven't prepared for exam what do thread.

>>33392372 (OP)
Somebody call the whambulance!

>>33392372 (OP)
Literally use Chat gpt's help to get started. If you don't manage to read it, use chat gpt's help too. Anything you submit is better than nothing. You might need to tweak it and lead it to do what you need it to do to help you, but it works wonders. It doesn't have to be perfect, or even good. Just ok. The only way you can fail is if you do nothing again, that's retarded.

>>33392372 (OP)
Well, you're not going to finish it now, are you? You've got no choice but to go to your professor and ask for an extension.