The following is a compiled portfolio of my work, including a poster, a postcard, a newspaper feature page, and a magazine spread, exploring the unsustainability of student life. As students continue to drown in debt, they struggle to find ways to balance their lives. Between work, homework, and classes, there is little time for relaxing, spending time with friends, or working out. The average student takes 15 credits a semester which averages about 15 hours spent in actual class. On top of that, students are expected to spend an average of 3 hours on homework each week per credit totaling 45 hours in homework. To keep up with monthly rent (averaging about $800 a month, utilities not included), many students also have to find time to work a job. Many students work 25 - 30 hours a week just to scrape by every month for groceries, rent, savings, and other things such as gas, entertainment, and utilities. With the expected 8 hours of sleep a week, this brings us to 146 hours of the 168 hours in a week spent on the most crucial parts of our college lives. This does not include the average one hour a day spent cooking and eating or the one hour average commuting to and from classes and work. When these are included, this brings the weekly hours to 160 leaving us just 8 hours a week or 1.14 hours a day for everything else. What’s not getting taken into account? Getting ready each day, showering, exercising, downtime, hanging with friends, and anything else.