Stress and Worry Free

During your college years, there is so much stress put on you. You have all of these demanding classes, and sometimes, you find yourself up all night trying to finish assignments. And if you are like me, you work full time as well. I want to discuss some ways you can decrease your stress levels, because too much stress is very unhealthy for your body.

Stress is the body’s response to an outside stimulus. This stimulus can cause havoc on the body, and disrupt the body’s homeostasis. Stress.org states, “According to a 2008 mental health study by the Associated Press and mtvU, eight in 10 college students say they have sometimes or frequently experienced stress in their daily lives over the past three months. This is an increase of 20% from a survey five years ago”. That’s quite alarming! And now with all of the different price hikes that have been going on in California with its school system, I would not be surprised to see this number has substantially increased again. There are just so many different things that are expected of you when you go to school, and sometimes, these are pretty much unreachable. Students are spreading themselves too thin. They are trying to graduate in four years, by jam packing classes into each semester. And as a result, their grade point average is dropping because they cannot handle eighteen units a semester.

 

Now I want to talk about some things you can do as a student to help you not be so stressed out so often. The first thing you can do is, make sure you are not taking too many classes! If you end up not passing a class, you are just going to have to retake it again. You are going to stress yourself out so much trying to pass, and then have nothing to show for it. The next thing you can do is, make sure you are sleeping enough! Without enough sleep, you are going to get more stressed as a result. So, make sure you are sleeping enough, and not too much! Because you could miss something important, and allow yourself to begin stressing even more. The next thing I recommend is not waiting until the last minute to start your assignments and studying. I know this one is a difficult one, because there is just not that much time. And who wants to be doing their homework after a long day at school, or work? But the easiest way to avoid stress in school is too not have your homework load pile up. Because this will lead to a lack of sleep, which causes more stress as well.

I hope this helped guys! Although I am sure that you all have already heard this before. Let’s all be stress free!