Spring Break
Intersections of stress in life of college student
Joce DeWitt
Issue date: 5/15/09 Section: Forum
It's just been one of those weeks.
You know, the kind when the homework assignments seem to make a bigger pile than usual and there isn't a moment for free time. Midterms may be out of the way for a lot of us, but there's still that handful of students who have a few disgusting tests to take this week.
Sometimes, the biggest stress relief is realizing you aren't alone in all your stressful endeavors.
As you're reading this, take a look around. Most likely everyone you see has felt some amount of stress this week, whether it stems from academics, finances or relationships.
Sadly, even though these factors are all general leading components of stress, they are all intertwined in some sick, twisted way.
According to organizedwisdom.com, 75 to 90 percent of student visits to an on-campus physician are caused by issues related to stress. Isn't it great to know that college life is not only giving us anxiety but also making a lot of us sick?
Let's begin with discussing the foremost stress source: school. All students can relate to this; we don't have the time, energy or even the motivation to do everything that professors expect of us.
The fact is most classes that students take have large homework loads. If the average amount of credits taken per term is 15, that's roughly four or five classes with heavy loads.
Let's be honest with ourselves: do all professors honestly expect us to complete every assignment, lab, presentation and required and suggested readings while also finding time to study for quizzes, midterms and finals?
Some of them are a little off their rockers, so maybe they do expect all of the said obligations of us as students, but they can't all be completely heartless. Someone should inform these professors they aren't the only ones assigning us out-of-class duties.
I am completely aware that now is the time to be trained and prepared for a big, scary real world. So instead of griping about it, I should be embracing it, right?
You know, the kind when the homework assignments seem to make a bigger pile than usual and there isn't a moment for free time. Midterms may be out of the way for a lot of us, but there's still that handful of students who have a few disgusting tests to take this week.
Sometimes, the biggest stress relief is realizing you aren't alone in all your stressful endeavors.
As you're reading this, take a look around. Most likely everyone you see has felt some amount of stress this week, whether it stems from academics, finances or relationships.
Sadly, even though these factors are all general leading components of stress, they are all intertwined in some sick, twisted way.
According to organizedwisdom.com, 75 to 90 percent of student visits to an on-campus physician are caused by issues related to stress. Isn't it great to know that college life is not only giving us anxiety but also making a lot of us sick?
Let's begin with discussing the foremost stress source: school. All students can relate to this; we don't have the time, energy or even the motivation to do everything that professors expect of us.
The fact is most classes that students take have large homework loads. If the average amount of credits taken per term is 15, that's roughly four or five classes with heavy loads.
Let's be honest with ourselves: do all professors honestly expect us to complete every assignment, lab, presentation and required and suggested readings while also finding time to study for quizzes, midterms and finals?
Some of them are a little off their rockers, so maybe they do expect all of the said obligations of us as students, but they can't all be completely heartless. Someone should inform these professors they aren't the only ones assigning us out-of-class duties.
I am completely aware that now is the time to be trained and prepared for a big, scary real world. So instead of griping about it, I should be embracing it, right?
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