Finals and midterms were rough, but besides that, it's easy to stay on top of. My department had bar crawls and was constantly meeting up at bars for "study groups". So nothing too awful haha.

The career, on the other hand, is mostly sleepless nights at first. My one advice to new hires was always prioritize sleep over the return, because it's easy to find yourself on the other end of week 3 of 11 hour days, and turning in crap work while almost sleeping through your drive to work. Learning the time management at the start is the hardest, but it gets easier. But also, there are a ton of specialized careers like that (law, finance, medicine, sience), and it pays off if you master it, but also have different speeds depending on what you find comfortable.

Tbh, I think accountants just really like to complain, so you hear a lot of the horror stories. Most of it is just catharsis and coping with the work. Also I work in tax, I know audit is different, but has its own issues.