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Philip Ingland

Eng. 111

Sec. 4

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In the world of college, there is always something to be done as a student. If it is homework, class, family, friends, or just living life, all college students have something going to do. College students are stressed at some point in time and every college student can make college less stressful if they plan, set goals, and find something that they like about college. Dr. Drew (2007) put it in a good way when he said “Without stress, there would be no life”. Is that true? Would life be the same without stress? Every college student learns to deal with stress in a different way; some sleep, others eat. College students all have their own ways of dealing with stress. I believe that if we just follow these few simple steps it will make college less stressful.

Planning is a huge part of making college less stressful. When I first started in college I trusted my teacher’s syllabus to plan for me. I found out very quickly that it was making it a lot harder to keep track of everything I had complete. That is when I started to find out that if I planned things out every day and I would be able to get everything done that I needed. One of the biggest parts of planning is planning your time on an everyday basis. There are only so many hours in each day. All students have homework and assignments that have to be done. Sometimes we may forget about them that is when we stay up late to get them done. When doing it last minute, that makes that project so much more stressful and can make going to that class the next day stressful to. There is an easy solution to this problem. Write down when your assignments are due and then write down the time you are able to work on it. When you do this, you are planning to have set times to do all you homework and so you will never have to worry about when you are going to get it done. I started planning my time a couple of years ago and it made school work much less stressful for me. I know on an every day basis when I am going to work on school work, and I know that I am going to be able to get it done on time. Most college students fill their time with other activities like friends and family. Not only do you need to plan on when you’re going to do home work, but plan when you are going to hang out with friends. If you know when you have to do home work, then you are able to get things done so much more affectively. Kansas University (2007) stated that, “you must learn how to overcome procrastination”. Every college student put things off till the last minuet. Why do we do that? Well it’s simple, we don’t like doing homework. I found that I was getting things done a lot easier when I planned on doing it and learned to set small goals.

Setting small goals can make big projects seem so much easier and a lot less stressful. I interviewed a college student that goes to Oakland Community College. She stated that with out setting goals she would never be able to get her homeowork done. I set small goals in everything that I do, not just in school. Some times we look at the big picture and that overwhelms us. We get stressed out when all we see is what has to be done in the end. Instead of looking at the big picture, we need to look at accomplishing small tasks to make up the big one. I feel a sense of accomplishment when I finish something that I have worked hard on. If I have to do something that is really going to be a hard project, I break it down and work on one little thing at a time so I feel like I am getting it done. When we set goals that are too much for us to handle, it could create more stress than not setting that goal at all. Don’t