Hell Week

The army is where boys become men, and hell week is where men become frogmen. Or so says the Naval Diving Unit (NDU).

It's where one goes through one week of physical and mental exertions with sleep deprevation thrown in for good measure.

They say it's the toughest thing that a human can go through without actually going through hell.

I beg to differ, I'm going through day 1 of my own personal hell week now.

How so? It's the mid-term break for NUS now. Some people like to think of it as a "holiday", especially those naive freshmen. Well, after 2 years in university, one tends to know better. The start of mid-term break signals the start of 1 week of sleep deprevation, mental and physical tourture!

You attend project meetings all day and then at night, you sit in front of your workdesk, rushing more reports and projects and tutorials and catching up with lectures. All the way till the middle of the night. Falling into a fitful sleep, you dream of books and lecture notes chasing you, only to wake in a flurry of flying notes that you have thrown. Morning bekons and the cycle starts all over again.

I'm only in day 1 and it feels like an both an eternity and an instant.

How am I too survive?

* looks around for moral support *