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Corrected sentence:

The algorithm is simple enough. The difficulty lies in mastering it in the short time my reality-challenged professor allowed: He clearly doesn’t understand my frenetic, exhausting schedule.

These sentences are straight-forward explanations of a student’s lament. The capitalization gives all the clues one needs to know where the sentences break. The trick is to end the sentences correctly. The first sentence is not closely associated with the second sentence, so a period is the best punctuation mark. However, the second sentence and third sentence have a shared mission of explaining the student complaint, therefore a colon is the best choice to join them. The compound adjective “reality-challenged” needs a hyphen, and the two adjectives describing the student’s schedule should be separated by a comma. The sentences then become clear and readable.
這些句子直接了當地闡述了一個學生的悲嘆。大寫的部分讓讀者清楚知道斷句的位置。寫作的訣竅即是正確地結束每個句子。第一句並未與第二句緊密相關，所以在此使用句號是再好不過了。不過，第二句與第三句均在敘述該學生的抱怨，在此最好使用分號。複合形容詞「reality-challenged」中間需要連字符號連結，而用以形容這名學生行程表的兩個形容詞應該用逗號分開。如此一來，這些句子便能更加清晰及便於閱讀。