Exhaustion

I just woke up from my nap. Yesterday I had to work on my final project that is worth 50% of my grade in Anthro. You know? That one about Shimokitazawa that I have been mentioning for ages. Well we finally got it done. It only took us from 8pm Tuesday night to 9am Wednesday morning. That's right, 11 straight hours of video editing, picture collecting, and sound sampling. We had to take all of our video footage including interviews and random shots, cut all of it down, and edit it into a video. That, however was not the problem. Putting the video together only took about 4 hours or so. The rest of the time was spent subtitling the interviews. I never knew how much work subtitling was. Actually translating the interviews only takes about 1/4th of the time spent on subtitling. The rest was spent typing it all in and getting the words to time up with when the person was speaking it. It was a huge pain. I think I got an hour and a half of sleep while the other group members took over. Luckily, Nick did most of the work, Seth provided his apartment as a place to stay, Jay gave suggestions, and I worked on the picture portion.

We got it done 20 minutes before class started. Rather, we had to go and present what we had finished. The movie still needed a lot of polish around the edges, but got the point across. After presenting we stuck around for the other 3 presentations then went home. I then immediately went to sleep.

Why do American college students like to wait until the last minute? I don't understand... If we had just started on Monday we wouldn't have had to pull an all-nighter...