When School Doesn't Fit into a 24 Hour Period...

Lately I've been giving a lot of thought to the load of course work and knowledge that is bestowed upon us students. Compared to twenty years ago, science students, for instance, have an insanly greater amount of knowledge to understand and remember. This semester for I and many many others seems to be so busy that along with not having a life, sleep has also been compromised for more study time. It seems to me as though the amount of time in class outweighs the amount of time possible for any work/study for those courses. I told someone today after finding that I had forgotten to read Othello for my Shakespeare class and had to take a quiz on it that I was so busy that I realized I may just be one credit over the limit of what I could handle time-wise. Could this be possible? Certainly... the problem arises when people not in your shoes tells you to stop whining and that it can't really be that bad. If there are people out there like me right now, our immune systems are being supressed by sleepless nights of studying to get those papers in the next day. Why, we ask ourselves, didn't we start them the week before? Oh yes, I remember now, because I was busy doing other homework until 3am before my 8am class the next morning!