It's 4 a.m., you have a dress due in 3 hours, and you are laying on the floor with an unhemmed dress. Now mostly this is your fault for not starting the project earlier, but you also had a 20-page paper over fashion trends due last night that you turned in late. On top of that, you had to finish a custom made jacket and that was the equivalent to working at a sweat shop. The icing on the cake, you have no clean clothes and you've already worn the same outfit twice this week.

Welcome to the life of a fashion major.

There's a stereotype around us. Other majors believe that we are the spoiled, semi-art student, crazed shoppers that are just floating through college. But we are more than that. We do love to shop though.

We are big-dreamers. But our big plans don't always get carried out successfully. Part of being in school is learning how to do things, the other part is not knowing how to do things. When your major is something like design, your brain starts flowing 100 mph and you come up with crazy ideas that don't always work out. Instead, you find yourself throwing something together praying to Lord above that it looks like you tried.

Adobe Illustrator is our version of Paint. Remember being in middle school and playing on Paint during class. Yep. When you grow up and decide to become a fashion student, Adobe Illustrator replaces the role.

Draping is our own personal Hell. Okay, it's really not that bad. But my goodness, it makes you use another territory of your brain that has never been touched! Draping is basically making a pattern on a form. Which sounds easy until you're trying to create something that you've never done before. Even though it's a mind boggling technique, there is a moment of satisfaction when you actually create something... that fits.

We say a lot of bad words. Because why would we not cuss when we accidentally rip a hole through our final project? Sewing is frustrating (and some people say it's relaxing). It's not uncommon to hear profanity in different languages coming from the sewing labs as it gets closer to turn in dates. Sometimes you'll even hear your prim and proper professor say something you didn't expect.

We never have money to shop. All our money is spent on our projects! In one of my classes we had to make a tailored jacket, I spent over $300 to tailor a jacket for my boyfriend. At the same time, I had another project due. Luckily, that only cost about $50. Everyone thinks making your own clothes is cheap, it's not.

Studying fashion is a commitment to slave over a sewing machine and create the designs of your fantasy. It's frustrating, it's not always pretty. It's being wide-awake at the crack of dawn finishing a garment for a final project with cheap wine on the table next to you. But in those moments when your eyes are red from focusing on stitching, your mind is fuzzy from the strawberry wine, and you hold up that finished garment; you can almost see it walking down the runway. Then your alarm clock rings and you remember that you're just a fashion student in college.