The "Final Semester" stress

Do you also stress about your final semester submissions, or is it just me overthinking?

The last semester is like carrying the entire weight of the world and letting go of it all at once (when submissions are done). The pressure of everything having to be perfect is bizarre.

The first few months of my last semester were taken pretty lightly by me. I didn’t want to start off by scaring myself of how much there is to do. The next month got super tiring suddenly with all the workload. Shoots, assignments, presentations, running to print and sometimes event reprint. To a point I was even working when I had a 103 degree fever but all I knew is that I couldn’t afford to lose anymore time and fail in the bargain because I fell sick. So I pushed through it.

Stress really gets to me, being the forgetful person that I am. I tend to make mistakes when I’m stressed so I’d forget to burn a CD or I’d misplace an important document sometimes too. Trust me, procrastination never helped me and only added to the stress. Having to wrap up everything last moment is something I can never keep upto. Printing post cards, business cards, posters, setting up a stall are few things i would have never imagined myself doing. I’m glad that the college is exposing us to these aspects before we step foot into the industry for real.

Nightmares about not making it through to graduation, low attendance, wrong submission, faulty submissions are all part of my final semester stress. I have woken up to these things palpitating and perspiring and realised it was just a dream and that I have worked hard to get to the final semester.

Ups and downs are part of life and the final semester submissions gave me an insight of, I’d say, how interesting my professional life is going to me and how I need to manage the stress levels along with the work pressure.

It only gets better from today because I have officially finished my submission and can’t wait to begin my professional career.