This article is about Kelly Perkins, Who is received a heart transplant after three years of treatment. She is brave and she made her ultimate challenge. She want to climb this mountain to change her image that her friend and her family think she is just a patient. She set a goal to hike the 4,100 feet ascent of Half Dome in Yosemite because this mountain is imperfect like she is but still beautiful. After 10 month of transplant she start hiking the mountain.…
College has been a unique and most important step in our educational career. So, why is the college experience so stressful? The factors vary from different individuals for different reasons, but what are the main causes. College will always be a stressful experience, however according to a poll study, college is stressful because of its effect personal, intrapersonal, physical and psychological well beings of the students. The few of the major causes of stress in college that is listed students is not being organized, the lack of proper sleep, poor eating habits, having huge amounts of work, adjusting to the new lifestyle and changes in personal and professional relationships.…
• What is the speaker’s topic; was it clearly defined? Kelly McGonigal’s topic was about stress and the recent studies that have revealed that stress can actually be helpful rather than harmful. The speaker clearly defined her topic and provided multiple statistics and research findings to help back up her claims. She introduced her topic at the very beginning of her speech by sharing her initial thoughts about stress and how she shared the common belief that all stress is destructive. Although it is true that stress can have some detrimental effects on the human body, new research has uncovered that its effects are completely contingent with our own perspectives of stress.…
College Anxiety: Can I do this? In the novel The College Fear Factor: How Students and Professors Misunderstand One Another by Rebecca D. Cox, the author argues to reclassify how the framework is organized, and how classes are instructed to better address the issues of those understudies who, 20 or 30 years back, never would have even pondered formal training after secondary school. Not only does Rebecca Cox this she also tries to reminds students that while understudy readiness is critical, more consideration should be coordinated toward what is esteemed in the domains of school instructing and school learning if genuine advance is to be made in understudy scholastic accomplishment. My experience at OCC complicates this because not all community…
“College students mostly regard stress as a plague” (Marano 4). However, stress and anxiety aren’t always negative. Having stress and anxiety make a student more aware of what needs to be done and when it needs to be…
For some students, college is stressful because it is a big difference from high school. In addition, stress strongly affects freshmen, who just moved out of their home, which means they have to start over. Freshmen need to pay bills and do chores by themselves, which will affect their life if they are not independent people. In other words, stress comes from the bills that make students have to study and work…
What happens when life doesn’t go exactly as planned? Oddly enough, this happens very often in the lives of many young Americans, and the strange thing is no one knows the answer to that question. Everyday, young people pursue their aspirations of college and dream jobs while leaving no room for mistake or error. Yet, error happens, sometimes accidentally, sometimes on purpose; however, it is the way in which adolescents respond to that error which influences their life. In texts like “College Should Be an Adventure”, and the Human Nature Peanuts cartoon by Charles M. Schulz, young people are taught that life, in fact, will not go exactly as planned, but that they should learn from their mistakes and move on.…
In “Why College Freshmen Need to Take Emotions 101,” Diana Divecha and Robin Stern describes that the transition to college can be very difficult and nerve-wracking for incoming college students. Most first-year students are trying to adjust to the new academic rigors that exceeds high school expectation. In college, the students are overwhelmed because these academic rigors are extremely challenging and difficult. To resolve this discrepancy, colleges have implemented college systems for students to achieve a higher and healthy education. However, this does not compensate for those who are impacted with unresolved personal issues that are left back home.…
It can be concluded and agreed upon the fact that test anxiety is associated with “lower academic performance and that a linear relationship exists between anxiety and examination performance” (Reteguiz). Anxiety is has a greater impact than stress does. According to dictionary.com, anxiety is “distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune,” and it is not necessarily wrong (dictionary.com). Anxiety is “an unpleasant emotional state or condition with perceived feelings of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry” (Reteguiz). The side effects of situation-specific anxiety, such as standardized testing induced anxiety, include “increased blood pressure, rapid heart rate with palpitations and tachycardia, sweating, dryness of the mouth, nausea, dizziness, hyperventilation, restlessness,…
If students tell themselves that they are going to do poorly on a test or exam, then they are more than likely going to do that. In the article “What Causes Test Anxiety” by Kendra Cherry she states that: Student expectations are one major mental factor. For example, if a student believes that she will perform poorly on an exam, she is far more likely to become anxious before and during a test. " Test anxiety actually gets worse each time a student experiences it. A student may begin to feel trapped or begin to feel hopeless.…
stress can be a problem for everyone, it can make people angry, sad, or even want to give up. Lucky enough here at Cerritos college, we have the opportunity to have many activities, programs, and events to help us get out mind distracted for a while and be able to be in a college without having to deal with stress and do the contrary and take out some stress. School stress can definitely ruin our happiness which is also the cause of student not fully focusing on getting a good education, but Cerrito's college student services have a lot of helpful activities and events to help us get out mind back into our degree…
As the human mind deals with stress, the other functions are lessened as to put all possible energy into handling stress and fixing a situation. I remember the day I took my driver 's test on October 11th, 2014. Passing the driving test and getting my official license was on my mind weeks before the date of the test and I practiced driving with my dad every day as to be sure I would pass. When the big day finally came to get into the car with the test examiner and show her that I was a great driver, my mind was in total stress mode.…
Students often experience various forms of stress in their everyday lives, whether it be, pressures from other peers, various upsets within their family, self-esteem, or trying to maintain a social life while keeping up with…
To simply define, stress is the physical or emotional response to any adverse circumstance where you are not able to cope. [Transition: Now that we have an understanding of what stress is, it is important to know the causes.] III. Stress on college students can be caused by many different factors but there are two mainly high reasons of stress on college students. In an article from the “American Institute of stress,” there was a study on mental health by the associated press where it was found out that eight in every ten college students said that they experience or feel stressed in everyday lives. A.…
In Bhutan, thinking is deliberate to create significant actions that lead to happiness. In part, this is due to the concept of karma. Karma is a matter of being involved in life, enough to extend kindness to everything and everyone. Even Weiner, during his stay, has a chance with karma as a bug is stuck upside-down in his room. Weiner considers what he has been told about kindness.…