“Not that there’s anything wrong with being gay” as Jerry Seinfeld would say. Homosexuality has become just another lifestyle in film, resulting in an more open-minded audience. As is the common theme in college-based films, different love affairs play a major part in 23-year-old director Emma-Kate Croghan’s “Love and Other Catastrophes.”

College film student Mia (Frances O’Connor) has overwhelmed herself with turmoil. In a single day, she must break up with her lover, change her major and confront her favorite professor with her desire to leave his understudying.

Her roommate, Alice (Alice Garner), has her own problems. While dealing with Mia’s vexation, she must try to find a roommate and convince a fellow student to like her, all while trying to avoid one of her professors.

This university-set film shows the trials and tribulations of the college day from hell. Among the running around and professor-dodging, the film does provide an accurate depiction of first-year college life: the emotional woe, the mental frustration and the tiresome building hopping.

One humorous sequence has a frustrated Mia walking back and forth between departments on opposite ends of the campus in order to change her major. Upon returning to her dean, she finds he has died, and her reaction is anxiety because he can’t sign her transfer sheet.

With all the emotional hopscotch, the film falls short in forming a reality between characters’ experiences and their emotions. It appears they’re either incapable of feeling pain or are high on ecstasy for the film’s duration. For instance, after finding her dean and close friend dead, Mia is less than shocked and far from melancholy.

Comparable to films like “Threesome” and “Reality Bites,” Croghan’s “Love and Other Catastrophes” is form-fitted for the frantic university student who can relate to the turmoils of earning the ever-important college degree.

3 Monty heads