When you think about a film student what comes to mind is probably some cool person who is really into classic and indie movies and only listens to movie soundtracks and is probably the third coolest person in the room. While some of that is true being a film student is not all fun and games and MCU binges. Studying film is tons of work and you slowly being to go crazy when you stop watching films (yes films not movies) for entertainment, but for analysis. Yes, we have to do an analysis on films! It really changes how we watch films when you watch The Godfather three times to understand the overarching themes and then write an essay about it.

Or even worse when you have to analyze a single scene in a film. Imagine re-watching the same three minute clip of one film for three hours to finally get the bigger idea and write a paper about your interpretation of said scene. It's a lot. Watching films for homework sound great until you realize that you have to really pay attention to what's going on or you are going to be really lost in the discussions about it the next day in class. That's not all about the homework however, my first film class we had to annotate Jaws and The Cove for homework, the whole movie. For the lucky souls, who never had to write one, an annotation is really the writer commenting about what is going on in the film and explaining their thoughts and feelings on the film. Jaws for example is a two hour film and to write an annotation took me for four hours to write and some of my classmates did it in six hours.

Just because you are a film student doesn't mean the struggles are only in classes, but no socially you are the one friend everyone goes to for film