Stress Among College Students
Stress Among College Students
We live through daily hassles and also have to face real life experiences that have a negative affect on our emotions and our physical self. Stress becomes a part of life for us. Stress is defined as events that strain the physical being g and emotions of an individual through exertion of pressure (helpguide.org 2010). Stress in most cases is usually an event. Whatever may cause the stress for us may be different for another. As a college student I have and still do experience stress and much pressure on me. There are many different factors that cause stress and college students, such as myself.
One main factor that may cause stress among us college students is money. Since it is our first time out in the “real world” we don’t know exactly how to manage our money. We begging learning how to finance between room and board, our books, our tuition, and also food. As said by Zinsser “ Tuition, room and board at most private colleges now comes to be at least 7,00 not counting books and fees”(College Pressures pg. 2). Since our tuition isn’t the cheapest it adds stress on our shoulders and we usually don’t know how to balance our money between everything we need to spend our money on.
Another huge factor that causes stress among college students is our academic progress. When starting college, we don’t know what to expect. We always hear people’s different college experiences but can never really believe it till we actually experience it ourselves. Our first in college we usually approach the first semester like if we were still in high school because we don’t know what to expect. When reality hits us and we finally see how difficult college is then there is where the stress gets worse. We have to learn how to balance our personal life with our college life. Also studying long hours and homework is a big part of stress in the academic progress as a college student. Students who receive financial aide, such as myself, also have to maintain
We live through daily hassles and also have to face real life experiences that have a negative affect on our emotions and our physical self. Stress becomes a part of life for us. Stress is defined as events that strain the physical being g and emotions of an individual through exertion of pressure (helpguide.org 2010). Stress in most cases is usually an event. Whatever may cause the stress for us may be different for another. As a college student I have and still do experience stress and much pressure on me. There are many different factors that cause stress and college students, such as myself.
One main factor that may cause stress among us college students is money. Since it is our first time out in the “real world” we don’t know exactly how to manage our money. We begging learning how to finance between room and board, our books, our tuition, and also food. As said by Zinsser “ Tuition, room and board at most private colleges now comes to be at least 7,00 not counting books and fees”(College Pressures pg. 2). Since our tuition isn’t the cheapest it adds stress on our shoulders and we usually don’t know how to balance our money between everything we need to spend our money on.
Another huge factor that causes stress among college students is our academic progress. When starting college, we don’t know what to expect. We always hear people’s different college experiences but can never really believe it till we actually experience it ourselves. Our first in college we usually approach the first semester like if we were still in high school because we don’t know what to expect. When reality hits us and we finally see how difficult college is then there is where the stress gets worse. We have to learn how to balance our personal life with our college life. Also studying long hours and homework is a big part of stress in the academic progress as a college student. Students who receive financial aide, such as myself, also have to maintain