Stress is a state of mind, emotional strain, or tension resulting from challenging or very demanding circumstances that may come with college academics. Stress is a mental battle that will come into a college kid’s life at one time or another, since overwhelming amounts of work and such little time pushing students to their limit to complete work in a timely manner. Many factors play a role in stress placed on college students but the most important part is finding ways to cope or get rid of stress. Meditation is a good form of stress reduction to help college students cope or get rid of any stress in their lives. If practiced often students will not only feel improved concentration but it also encourages a healthy lifestyle. This practice …show more content…
Piling on classes is only going to lead to a stressful and unhappy semester. Dropping a class before the deadline is an important factor to consider because the student could keep the class or drop it based on the schedule. Dropping a class isn’t always a bad thing, this could allow the student to put more time into other classes without being overwhelmed. Employers don’t look at what classes a student took each semester. They view the overall grades and GPA the student completed, so what for be stressed and overwhelmed? In my own observation, I saw my brother very stress from trying to take on a load of classes he couldn’t handle the amount of work. He was able to drop two classes before the deadline, so everything worked out in the end. He learned his lesson to break away at his degree in small pieces rather than stressing over too much work and to large of a …show more content…
Study habits have been proven to make or break a college student. Preparation is key when approaching academics. Time management is very important when it comes to academics. Some students are faced with balancing a job, school, and in some cases having kids. Prioritizing school helps with staying on track and gaining success in college. Based on observing a single mother I know became overwhelmed with school, work, and keeping food on the table for her family. What helped her out the most was a positive attitude, taking on one problem at a time, and only focusing on things she could control. This mindset is what helped her to gain a college degree and support her family. When students don’t prioritize their time, they are more likely to cram all their work last minute since they wasted all their time on tasks with little to no importance such as partying, video games, procrastinating,
In fact, “a determined student, even encountering hardships in his/her life while attending college full time, will succeed” (Culpepper 330). Also, many professionals successfully graduated college while dealing with hardships such as “raising children alone, working in multiple jobs, and caring for sick relatives” (Culpepper 330). They showed commitment by staying focused on what they wanted to achieve in their lives. An overloaded student accomplishes his/her tasks by organizing his/her daily schedule, not allowing more than one activity developing in the same hour. Also, the student has to allow for himself/herself recreational time as a reward, for that will balance his/her overwhelmed lifestyle.
Everyone has experienced some type of stress in their life. Whether it has been from work, school, or trouble at home, stress is stress. If anyone had played sports in high school, you know the challenge of balancing school and sports. Imagine that stress, then multiply it exponentially. Everyone knows that college is a much more rigorous version of high school.
Everyone everywhere has experienced stress with something they have dealt with in life. Whether it is school, paying bills, managing a busy schedule or work, stress affects everyone. Although everyone experiences stress, many people don’t actually know what stress is. Stress is the physical response of the body to harmful situations that threaten someone’s well being. When someone says “stress”, the word is automatically associated with a negative effect on people but small doses of stress can benefit a person, if used to correctly. Everyone’s stress level is different and the amount of stress that can be handled varies from person to person but a stress overload will not benefit anyone. “When you feel threatened, a chemical reaction occurs in your body to allow you to act in a way to prevent injury” (“Stress Management Health Center”). The chemical that is released when stressed is known as cortisol, also known a stress hormone. “Cortisol is like a long-term form of adrenaline, produced in the adrenal gland when the body is under pressure” (“The Effects of Stress on Your Reproductive Health and Fertility”). Adrenaline is also released to send the body into, what is known as, emergency action (“Stress Symptoms, Signs and Causes”). This emergency action speeds up reactions preformed by the body and the mind. This is a way of protecting the body. While in emergency action, this stress caused by threatening situations can save your life. In emergency situations, you are given “extra strength to defend yourself, for example, or spurring you to slam on your brakes to avoid a car accident” (“Stress Management Health Center”). Signs of being in this emergency action are a racing heart, blood pressure rises, quickening of breath and tigh...
Stress can come from any event or thought that makes us feel frustrated, angry, or nervous. All of us experience stress and usually cope with it well. Stress is an omnipresent part of life and is a reaction to external stimuli that disturb our physical or mental equilibrium. It is a system in our body that helps us to deal with real danger and / or perform at our best. Any event or happening that induces stress is called stressor.
Life is full of obstacles and has shown people that stress is very common and a part of life. When you are running around all the time like you are in an emergency mode, your body will pay the price. What some people do not know is that stress can actually be helpful and can cause a positive effect on you. It can serve as a motivation and be useful under pressure. Without stress, our lives would be boring and pointless.
College students have to balance work, family, and college activists and any delaying behavior from within can cause an unbalance. This behavior is called procrastinating and it can lead to problems in many areas of a student’s life. College students are the worst hit by this type of behavior because they have many different activities to focus on instead of studying. These activities can cause students to study when they have time which often is usually too short amount of time. There is a time and place to relax and enjoy life, but if students focus on playing around instead of getting their assignments done, college life will be stressful.
What is stress? Stress is state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. Stress can from depression, work, and much more. One doctor says, “Stress is a silent disease.”
Everyone deals with stress at some point in his or her life. Most people deal with it daily. As defined in the book called Principles and Labs for Fitness and Wellness, stress is, “The mental, emotional, and physiological response of the body to any situation that is new, threatening, frightening, or exciting” (Hoeger & Hoeger, 2012). This stress is caused by a stressor, which is also known as “a stress-causing event” (Hoeger & Hoeger, 2012). Stressors can take all different forms, from moving to a new town, having a baby, or even writing a paper (Boyd, Wood, & Wood, 2011). One major stressor in life can be going to college. If not coped with properly, these stressors can leave a person with too much stress that could end up harming them mentally and physically, such as developing an illness (Boyd, Wood, & Wood, 2011). There are several ways to cope with stress. Some healthy ways to cope with stress would be practicing emotion-focused coping, building time-management techniques, and practicing meditation.
Hey, are you stressed? Well so am I. Unfortunately, stress consumes us all whether it’s because of academics, careers, family, friends, or other things. There are plenty of ways of reducing stress and even getting rid of it. Although stress can be seen as a bad thing, it is also good since it helps an individual prioritize what’s important due to the amount of stress felt on a certain topic. For example, this paper increased my stress each day it came closer to being due, so it was prioritized for me to do to help reduce my stress. Stress can also be seen as bad since it can inflict on a persons’ physical health, and lead to rather rash decisions like sleep depriving ones’ self to finish an essay or study for a test. That leaves the question is how can one reduce bad stress, and keep good
Stress is a familiar word in today’s world and everyone that has to earn a living or studying can get stress easily. There are differences between stress at school vs stress at work life even stress in daily life; students nowadays are going through many pressure, mostly the stress they are dealing with appears during exam period. Simply, stress is a mental illness that contains apprehension and anxiety and was caused by problems surrounding your life. Stress can affect health and emotions negatively and it causes an issue for the body if there is no solution to deal with it, bad stress appears in a long-term and happens when life’s problems have no way to handle. On the other hands, not all stress is bad for you, some are considered good stress
Schedules are a difficult thing to balance. A person must find the time to complete a number of tasks in a day. A normal adult may have time to get everything done and still have time to spare. The normal college student on the other hand is constantly on the go. College students have busy schedules that include working, studying, and socializing.
First, stress is defined as an unpleasant state of emotional and physiological arousal that people experience in situations that they perceive as dangerous or threatening to their well being (Patel, 14). Stress is a universal feeling to everyone but the word stress means different things to different people. Some people define stress as events or situations that cause them to feel tension, pressure or negative emotions such as anxiety or anger (Patel, 15). Other people may view stress as a process involving a person’s interpretation and response to a threatening event. In any case, stress has many facets of how one perceives and responds to the certain predicament that is ailing them.
Stress comes in many shapes and forms, it comes with the job of being human. My sources of stress come from the major parts of my life; academic pressure, social settings, and time management. As a high school student, high school in general is very stressful, but not only am I high school student I am also a college student. Double the responsibility means double the stress.
We have all had these feelings before. Anxious thoughts, a short temper, trouble sleeping and concentrating, a constant headache, your back and shoulders always hurting, you are stressed out.
Stress is in our everyday lives. We allow things such as the way we live, school, work, family, relationships etc to stress us out. Some people deal with stress way different from others. Some may know how to cope with stress better than others. We allow stress to take a major toll over our lives when we are suppose to fight it, but a lot of people can’t do that. Stress makes you act and do things that are not like yourself. Stress is a negative word; it comes in all different shapes and forms.