Midterms Are Upon Us

Midterms are the bane of every college student's existence.  Set right in the middle of the semester, you're two months in and you know you have over two months left, classes just decided to start piling on the work, and then they throw a heavily weighted exam at you.  How can anyone survive?

If you go to any normal college and study ... well, anything, your Midterm preparations probably look a little like this:

Regular School Midterm Prep

However, I go to Theatre School.  So, instead of textbooks, notes, and every colored highlighter in the rainbow, my Midterm preparations look a little like this:

Theatre School Midterm Prep

Hairspray, makeup, and dance shoes.  All have to be in perfect condition if you want to stand a chance of surviving midterms in Theatre School.

Here at AMDA, students are highly encouraged to wear makeup to class every day.  They want their students to appear performance-ready at any time, because after all, our teachers now could be our future employers.  Every day is basically an audition.  And when midterms roll around, it's time to break out the bright red lipstick.  Nothing says "actress" more than dramatic vampire-after-feeding-time lips.

With four dance classes, an acting class, a vocal production class, and a musical theatre class, there's a lot of performance involved in midterms.  That means, if you get sick, you're doomed.  So keep up on the vitamins.

And, of course, on top of two weeks of midterms, every teacher wanted to schedule a makeup class for what we missed during Thanksgiving.  So, no weekend to relax, either.

Just two weeks until Christmas Break.  I can do this ...

Love,
Little Me