How to Cope With Stress in College
Do you have difficulty in breathing? Do you usually lose your sleep? Do you feel irritable recently? And whether you have a headache and cold palms or not? If so, it proves that you are stressful recently, therefore you should know how to relieve stress. Today, my topic is how to cope with stress in college.
College life can be very stressful. Although stress is a normal sense for everyone, it’s difficult to make a balance between the two extremes. First of all, we should figure out the sources of stress. The competition for grades, the need to perform, interpersonal relationship, career choice and many other aspects of the college environment cause stress. These factors are connected with our family, peers and society. Almost every student has to face stress of exams, as for us, we must consider some tests about our major, for instance, CET-6 and TEM-8. And the majority of us should accept the stress from family. Our parents all hope that we can get a good job after graduation, they keeping reminding us of the significance of the future job no matter how hard we work in college. We also have stress from peers who try their very best to study, hence we must keeping moving in order not to lag behind them.
But before condemning stress outright, we need to understand that stress is only harmful when it is excessive. Some of the stress that we all experience is helpful and stimulating. The challenges of life tend to be
stressful and an attempt to avoid stress completely would lead to a rather boring existence. After realizing the causes of stress, we can manage them by means of balancing the two extremes. Maybe we can communicate with our parents and seek understanding and support from them. Besides, we can take part in outdoor activities. If necessary, we can put ourselves in nature temporarily and then we can forget something stressful.
Proper stress is the power of making progress,developing a balanced lifestyle,gaining ideas by discussing problems with other students or teachers,building a sense of life meaning and making stress stepping-stone in the way of success can help you relieve your stress in college.
Thank you for listening my speech.。