Does It Ever Stop? The Struggle of Endless Deadlines.

It’s a cycle that just keeps going.

So much to do, so little time. Ever feel like you’re losing your mind, not in a way that lands you in a psych ward, but in a way that leaves you mentally, emotionally, and physically drained? Like nothing feels real anymore, and you’re just running on autopilot?

You finally submit an assignment, and just as you start to breathe, a message pops up in the group chat, Test next week. Great! Meanwhile, that group presentation is creeping closer, and your anxiety is through the roof. And, of course, your group members are doing the bare minimum, so now everything’s on you. Because, let’s be honest, you’re not about to let yourself fail.

Then, just when you think you can finally catch a break, your project supervisor is on your case about proofreading your work. Oh, right, you still have editing to do. And just when you think that’s bad enough, you remember exams are around the corner. So now, on top of everything else, you have to start preparing for that too. No way! This can’t be happening. But it is. And that’s when reality hits, it never stops.

Maybe after graduation, things will be different. No more deadlines, right? Wrong! Now it’s job hunting. Or maybe you decide to go for a master’s degree, except that’s just another level of stress, dissertations, research, and assignments that never seem to end.

It’s a cycle that just keeps going.

So, does it ever stop? Maybe not. But the real question is, how do we survive it without completely losing ourselves in the process?