How CreComm turned me into a crazy person

I am a first-year Creative Communications student at Red River College. To say that this course is "fast-paced" and "a lot of work" is a gross understatement. I was shocked at the amount of work we were given in the first couple of months. I thought it was insane. Now, in the last two weeks of the semester, I would kill for the relative ease of those first months. Back in the good ol' days when sleep was an actual prospect. When food was put together nicely in meals instead of something you threw down your throat whenever you had a spare moment.

For the last two weeks of school, before the much anticipated Christmas break, we have been on schoolwork lockdown. We don't have time to see our families. Friends are starting to get annoyed and wonder if we don't care about them anymore. Pets sit at home, alone, and hungry. Boyfriends/girlfriends start to wonder what 'really' goes on when we are at school until 10 p.m.

And we are:

• In desperate need of a solid week of sleep.
• Starting to smell from lack of time for showers and excessive stress sweat
• Wearing the same outfits to school for days in a row, because we have no time to do our laundry
• Losing weight from all of the running around for last minute prints, and lack of time for eating.
• Starting to question the sanity of anyone that would put themselves through this much stress
• So terrified of 'Auto-fails' that we lose our minds going over every single word of an assignment.
• Wondering if we should just start paying Red River rent since we are pretty much living here now

Just to give you an idea of how crazy things have been. For the last two weeks of school we have:

• About nine hand-in assignments.
• Ten 'extra practice' assignments, and by extra practice they mean, you don't HAVE to do them, but if you don't you forfeit ten marks.
• An on-air radio performance.
• Several short stories to read.
• A live-hit derby (30 second on-air news story.)
• A live production of a basketball game.
• And last but not least, the last two blog posts of the semester.

While it is crazy right now. I may feel like I can feel my sanity slowly slipping away. It is also pretty amazing. The bond the classmates are developing under all the preasure will likely last a lifetime. The feeling you get when you complete an assignment you thought you hadn't a chance in hell of getting done. The praise and encouraging words you get from your teachers (well, most of them). And the sense of accomplishment you feel once you get it all done. Make it all worth it.