Kind of like swamped, except in the past tense completive (?). Also, with more of a sense of chaos, and more of a sense of "can't see the forest for the trees". I had been going to school continuously for my entire life at the point that I graduated (to the point of even going to summer school at the end of high school so that I could graduate a year early, and in less than a month started college). So yeah, the first couple of years of no school were kind of a relief.
That Denzel rumor is a little bit of an exaggeration -- yes, we lived together, but nothing happened. And one could do worse than Denzel's leftovers.