How To Cut Down On College Stress

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How To Cut Down On College Stress

Copyright 2005 Trevor Dumbleton

Probably the least appreciated form of stress is college

stress. This is mostly due to the fact that adults simply

see a lot of college students sitting on their rear ends

playing video games and drinking, instead of seeing

students who are under pressure to succeed all the time.

In addition to classes, homework, research, reading, paper

writing and problem solving, there are now the problems of

how the heck to pay for college and whether there will be

any jobs waiting after graduation. Thus, with all these

forms of college stress weighing students down, it is no

wonder that things tend to get ugly when they “blow off

steam”.

Of course, there are better ways to deal with stress than

to drink an entire case of beer in one day. In fact,

abusing your body with any number of chemicals does not

really help that much, aside from the fact that people

generally relax when they do such things. However, they

are usually relaxed before partaking of the latest work of

ancient and modern chemistry, so the substances themselves

really do not make much of a difference.

Unfortunately, college stress is often the first encounter

that some students have with persistent stress, and it is

hard for them to deal with it. However, it is also the

first time that many of them have had experience with

almost complete freedom, so college has a double threat.

Complete freedom means the ability to simply ignore the

cause of stress, which is usually the classes they need to

stay in college. Thus, the problem of freshmen retention

in many universities.

Unfortunately, most students don’t even attempt to find

help for their stress problems. In fact, the most common

effort to help students through their stress is to tell

them to either just get their work done or to get used to

it. Of course, this advice usually comes from their

friends and, though there is a certain set that could use

this advice, many other students are struggling to keep up

simply because they are unable to cope with their stress.

Thus, by relieving their own minds of their concerns, they

could help their grades and help keep themselves in school.

The best place to start looking for relief from college

stress is by talking to an advisor. They are more than

happy to help students because they want to help them and,

for the most part, nobody ever visits them. Thus, they are

very eager to help, but very lonely, so they will be more

than happy to give a hand to anyone who needs it. If you

are a student under stress, they can help you deal with the

classroom concerns and direct you to people who can help

alleviate your stress concerns. It doesn’t matter how

personal the problems might be, advisors are very private,

very discreet, and they are more than happy to provide you

with assistance.

For those who need more regular relief from college stress,

there are other options to the usual cure of barley and

hops. In fact, colleges are a wealth of opportunities to

learn new stress-reduction methods. For instance, there

are yoga clubs, meditation classes, and even courses in tai

chi that can help you learn how to cope with stress and

ease its effects on you. As well, many colleges will

provide stress-relief seminars every so often, simply to

help their students keep their stress at bay. By all

means, look for these seminars and make use of them.

Another way to keep college stress at bay is to simply

budget your time properly. Yes, that means that you should

actually perform that time-honored and often-overlooked

stress reduction method known as “getting work done early”.

This not only means getting your homework polished off and

done before the day it is due, you should also attempt to

start long-term projects more than one day before they are

due. By spreading out projects, you can actually relieve a

lot of stress. This is because you will actually be giving

yourself less work to do later and you will not have to

freak out at the last minute because the work is not done.

Yes, I know you’ve heard this all before, but if you want

to avoid college stress, you need to actually do it for a

change.

College stress is a major problem for university students,

but it is mostly ignored by the students who are actually

under stress. In fact, they usually just try to press

through their stress without considering that it does not

need to keep them under its thumb. However, that does not

need to be the case. Students can help themselves by

simply recognizing their own college stress and making a

few efforts to alleviate it.

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