Just finished up dead week, but I am totally dead. Thankfully I made plans tonight to go hang out with some friends. However, when dead week hits here are some tip and tricks to help alleviate some built up stress.It may have helped for me to use more of these throughout the week as well. However, if anything else finals week is around the corner so this tips will be utilized.
Ways to help get rid of Stress
- Have a schedule and stick to it. If you know when you are going to get everything completed and when the course load can seem less stressful.
- Take frequent breaks, but not so frequent you don’t get any work done. That is my weakness. So I take frequent breaks but I make a point to not go on social media or my five-minute break turns into an unintentional thirty-minute break.
- If your school has trained therapy dogs come to school make time for it! I was unaware my school even had this until I came into the CU one day and saw all of the cute dogs. I loved this because I cannot be very stressed when I am petting a dog. They are the sweetest little things, or not so little when it comes to the pit bulls and mastiffs that were there. This only happens at my school during dead week so this possibility may be limited. However, if you ever get the opportunity take it.
- Probably the most well know way to alleviate stress is exercise. I am excited I can also hang out with friends on this one. Tonight, in particular, I am going ice skating with friends. There is a college night at an ice rink every Friday near my school. It is my favorite winter sport and I live somewhere where we have an outdoor ice rink.
- This brings me to my next point of hanging out with friends. Either you can all vent about how you hate everything school related, at the moment, or you can all do a fun activity and totally forget about school.
- Lastly, listen to music. This is my personal favorite. When I am singing along the music I do not think about anything other than the song playing.
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