7I #3 How to Deal With Stress?

Stress is something that affects every college students at one point or another, but the key is learning how to manage it. There are many factors that play into stress for students it could be related to leaving home for the first time, meeting new people, or the juggle of the new work load that you have.

There are many contributing factors to stress, but the only way you can manage stress is if you learn how to recognize it. At the Health Center, located across from the Moore Field House, they tell you that some ways of realizing you are stressed is if you are fatigued, feel overwhelmed, or if you keep getting sick, like with the common cold.

You might think it is easy to recognize that you stressed, but who do you deal with it? What are some good outlets?

                 There are many ways to manage stress that the people in the Health Center recommend. I know that when I’m stressed some of these methods work for me, like talking to my friends about my problems, it’s nice to know someone is there to listen and help, but also sometimes it is nice to just let it all out by having a nice cry, I feel that it relieves me of whatever it was that I was holding inside of me.