Stress Management

As a college student every single one of us has stress in our lives. It comes from all areas and can affect people in a lot of different ways. Stress can come from family, friends, sports, money problems, and many other things we talked about in this weeks class. Stress is all about how you handle it. If you have things that can help you relieve stress than you will be more successful and can live a lot happier life. Stress is a daily thing, which makes it tough to handle. There are many techniques Dr. Blumin has suggested in order to reduce stress and make the workload that a college student deals with regularly a lot less. Two techniques I have used are the 10 minute vacation and the Putting it All Together: Stress Reduction. These two techniques have worked out great for me and I can still getting my work done.

The 10 minute vacation is good for me when I work on my papers or when I am reading a chapter. I use the 10 minute vacation usually for my HIS 102 because it involves daily reading and I have had multiple papers due. I have also used this for my CFS 388 class because before each lecture he covers he assigns a reading chapter. I will start reading or writing a paper, then step away for about 10 or 15 minutes, listen to music and relax. After that I get right back to work. I love this technique because it allows me to work efficiently and relax at the same time. It works for me because I am a kinesthetic learner and it allows me to assign time periods in my mind when I need to finish my work.

Putting it All Together: Stress Reduction allows me to write down what I do to reduce my stress level. This is not for a specific class I would say, because it helps me reduce stress in all of my classes. It is divided up into a few different categories: Daily, Weekly, Exam, Workload, Relationships. For all of these different categories I have different things that relieve my stress. Daily activities include TV, hanging out with friends, and playing basketball. Weekly ones are usually just going out to dinner. When preparing for an exam sometimes I like to take a walk and exercising. When I have a lot of work to do I usually like to play video games to relieve stress within my breaks. When having problems with relationships I usually talk to friends or step away from everything and just have alone time. Making this chart has helped me because i am a kinesthetic and visual learner, and it allows me to write down the ways I relieve stress and visually see what I like to do. These techniques have worked for me greatly and i feel like it is easier for me to enjoy myself while getting work done efficiently.