For the last few weeks, I\u2019ve been hearing countless complaints and gripes. Many conversations have entailed the stressed monotones of CBU freshmen experiencing their first round of college midterms.<\/p>\n
I call it, \u201cmidterm madness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, as an art student, I never feared midterms, to be honest. This is mostly because, well, I only had two \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
So when friends, or even a roommate, would vent their midterm madness stress to me, I did my best to empathize\u2026 but couldn\u2019t. I considered myself lucky, almost unfairly so, and a little slacking, because as a graphic design and photography student, I don\u2019t really have to worry about a boatload of midterms looming like a storm over my head for two weeks.<\/p>\n
But just as midterms for non-CAVAD majors began winding down\u2026 the projects <\/em>hit, and boy was I wrong about \u201cslacking.\u201d<\/p>\n I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019m feeling a little low on creative juices. By the time I\u2019ve gotten to bed shortly after midnight each night this week, I\u2019ve 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, \u201cOh well. My brain won\u2019t shut up.\u201d Back to work.<\/em><\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love <\/em>the opportunity of the challenge to do multiple projects on top of each other within a time constraint, because I know that\u2019s what the \u201creal world\u201d will be like after graduation, and this is excellent practice. But this week, readers, I probably won\u2019t be giving an emotional goodbye to them.<\/p>\n If anything, after this week I\u2019ll feel incredibly accomplished as a growing designer, and for that I am very grateful. I\u2019d take that over \u201cmidterm madness\u201d anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the last few weeks, I\u2019ve 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, \u201cmidterm madness.\u201d Now, as an art student, I never feared midterms, to be honest. This is mostly because, well, I only had two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natalie-shadle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}