What comes to mind when you think of school? Teachers? Friends? Classmates? Homework? Tests? Projects? For most people, it would be a combination of all of these things. Of course, when you face all of these basically every day for almost seven hours a day, five days a week for ten months, that would pretty much be what you would think of when it comes to school. But there’s also something that comes to mind when you add all of this together. What is it? One word: stress.
With the amount of work being piled onto you every day for months, it’s not impossible to imagine the stress that is being brought upon you. For those that strive to do the best in school, they have work that is continuously piled onto them. As for those that struggle during the year, it’s also a load of stress. Think about it. Not being able to keep up with the work. Worrying about your grades slipping. Thinking it’s the wrong class for you. You can’t help being stuck in this spiraling tornado while wondering if you’re going to survive to see the light of another day. That’s an exaggeration but still, you really don’t know how to handle it.
What can you do to help relieve it? Is there anything that can be helped so you feel less stressed? Well first, take a deep breath. When you do, you get a clearer mind and understand what’s going on.
After you’ve calmed yourself down from all of that studying for a test you think you’re going to fail, stop thinking about it. The more you think of it, the more stressed out you’re going to be. And trust me, no one wants to see a kid pulling out their hair over a test during lunch when it was announced last week and you procrastinated because you were “busy” watching TV.
After your huge studying frenzy during lunch, walk into your test feeling confident about knowing the material and do your best. Knowing this, it may relieve the tension you feel about having to get a perfect grade on the test.
When the forty-eight minutes are up, hand it in and walk away knowing that you did your best. Don’t walk out of the room counting how many answers you know you got wrong. If you do, you’ll add to the stress that you already feel because of the test.
Stress is something everyone will feel no matter what you’re doing. But if you can find ways to control it and relax, you’ll feel ten times better, whether you’re in school or outside in the real world.
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