Andy in "The Devil Wears Prada"

"The Devil Wears Prada" is the only movie that I could think of that would come close to my life. The difference is, instead of working I'm doing school and Miranda is all of my schoolwork and classes. Though, there is no one in my life like Miranda I feel like her demanding personality is much like my classes and all of the homework that goes along with it.  In the movie Andy hardly has anytime in her life to take on other things besides her job, let along relax and spend a little time with herself to just relax.  She barely has time to spend with her boyfriend and she even lives when him!  I'm much like that where school takes up nearly every waking hour and I only see my boyfriend on the weekends.  Miranda inneccesant phone calls are like my brain when I'm trying to lay down and go to sleep only all I can think of is everything I need to get done the next day.

Another way I could be Andy is how  I have the perfect boyfriend, but with all of the schoolwork I have to do I never get to be with him anymore because he's back home (two hours away) and I'm here trying to graduate early. Her boyfriend gets frustrated with all the time she spends working and all of the extra errands she has to do and all of the phone calls she has to take.  It's the same for me.  Both myself and my boyfriend are getting frustrated with never being able to see each other, except on the weekends.

Another similarity is that I originally came here for school because of Journalism and that's why Andy took her job. She wanted a good job in the journalism  business and she thought getting this job would look great on her resume and she would meet a lot of influential journalist while she worked their.  I came to OU because they had a really good journalism school.  Both of our paths led a different way that what we intended on. Me to psychology and her to the fashion industry. While in the end her situation gets so back she has to quite.  I  don't think mine will go quite that far. I'll finish school and have a degree in psychology.

Towards the end of the movie everything finally clicks in Andy's mind after Miranda tells her she's become a young version of herself.  Andy finally quits her job realizing this has taken her somewhere she never wanted to be in the first place.  I get this feeling about once a week where I have to straighten out my priorities and just relax for a few seconds before my head explodes.  I feel so wrapped up and stressed about everything that I have do for school that it's kind of changed me and that's affected our relationship, like it does in the movie. I just keep trekking on thinking, 'Just one more year and I'm graduating!'

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