The Spectrum

Issue date: 9/28/06 Section: Perspectives

Media Credit: The Spectrum/ Kate Brindisi Some students turn to ice cream as a remedy for stress.

College age students have enough to worry about without having to deal with the stress of a difficult class. Coupled with extra-curricular activities or simply the stress of everyday life, difficult classes are the main cause of anxiety in college students.

It is a difficult task to juggle the workload of a demanding class with the pressure of a reasonable social life at any academic level let alone the collegiate level.

For some students, the answer to dealing with such a demanding class lies in either the Mahogany Room or the library where it is trusted that students can get more of their work done instead of being caught by the distractions of their dorm rooms or houses.

"The worst thing about taking tough courses isn't going to the classes, it's knowing I have a lot of work to do in more than one of them," said Joe Romano, junior, Brooklyn, N.Y.

"If there was only one hard class a semester than that would not be as much of a problem," said Romano.

When asked about the amount of challenging classes he took Romano said, "I try to limit them to as little per semester as possible."

Carrying the stress for one or more classes is a hard task to deal with. Students look to different outlets in order to relieve stress.

Jason Hey, junior, Falmouth, Mass. said, "I go to the gym and play a friendly game of basketball."

When asked about how Hey deals with the stress of his classes he said, "even when I am stressing out about enormous amounts of work I have to do, it always helps to take my mind off it to ease my nerves, and then get a fresh start at working again."

Every student has to make a decision whether or not to let the anxiety of classes overwhelm them or step up to the plate and get the work done. There is no particular remedy to manage this type of stress except for each student to find what works best.

"The reading is excessive," said Kate Mcallister, junior, Ridge, N.Y.

"Asking me to memorize a chapter a class for each class is a bit excessive," said Mcallister.

One can correlate their agenda with that of Mcallister's. In order to try and relieve some of the stress in her workload situation Mcallister said, "Anything that takes my mind of my work helps, usually going to the gym or even just hanging out with some friends."

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