Midterm Madness
For the last few weeks, I’ve been hearing countless complaints and gripes. Many conversations have entailed the stressed monotones of CBU freshmen experiencing their first round of college midterms.
I call it, “midterm madness.”
Now, as an art student, I never feared midterms, to be honest. This is mostly because, well, I only had two – one for Oral Communications and another for Design Thought Foundations. Studying for both just meant reviewing some notes and being prepared to write a lot, neither of which fazes me.
So when friends, or even a roommate, would vent their midterm madness stress to me, I did my best to empathize… but couldn’t. I considered myself lucky, almost unfairly so, and a little slacking, because as a graphic design and photography student, I don’t really have to worry about a boatload of midterms looming like a storm over my head for two weeks.
But just as midterms for non-CAVAD majors began winding down… the projects hit, and boy was I wrong about “slacking.”
I don’t mean to complain, because in all honesty I do enjoy creative projects. But when, for example, a CAVAD major suddenly has four projects and two essays due in one week, things get rough.
The last four days for me have entailed nonstop work. My eyes are a little fried from all of the computer screen time, and to be honest I’m feeling a little low on creative juices. By the time I’ve gotten to bed shortly after midnight each night this week, I’ve had a hard time falling asleep because my brain is still on high-speed productive mode. After trying for a half hour to fall asleep for a short nap yesterday, I eventually came out of my bedroom and said to my roommate, “Oh well. My brain won’t shut up.” Back to work.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the opportunity of the challenge to do multiple projects on top of each other within a time constraint, because I know that’s what the “real world” will be like after graduation, and this is excellent practice. But this week, readers, I probably won’t be giving an emotional goodbye to them.
If anything, after this week I’ll feel incredibly accomplished as a growing designer, and for that I am very grateful. I’d take that over “midterm madness” anytime.
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