This past week has been a pretty stressful week for me. I've been assigned a bunch of projects by my teachers, and I've been trying to do makeup work because I've missed class. I've also been preparing for the State DECA competition that is this week. This made me wonder, "Why do teachers seem to assign big projects at the same time?" I first thought about the time of the year. It is in the middle of the term, which would seem a good time to have a project. Mid-term is definitely better than at the end of the term. Maybe teaching is actually a conspiracy against teenagers. I mean, if you think about it, there are some scary parallels to high school and jail. We are required to be in school by law, and are penalized if we are caught out of school with an excuse. We have a set schedule that we have to follow. There are religious things that we can attend if we want to. Those are just a few. To tell you the truth, I really don't believe that there is a conspiracy. I think it was all coincidence, or it was just because it was in the middle of the term. So, the morale of the story is that when it comes to be the middle of the term again, be prepared.