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How to Succeed in College (Or…How I learned to stop stressing and just RELAX already!)

The entire act of going to college is so full of built-in stress that it’s hard to comprehend how all college students don’t have ulcers and panic disorders (and some or most of them do.)  Between the $60,000 in student loan debt, holding down a decent job, making friends, and lining up potential careers, it’s amazing how we can wake up for class every morning.

I’ve met so many students who say they have anxiety attacks or panic attacks and have to leave class sometimes just to have a breakdown in a bathroom stall.  The school counselors and psychiatrists are overrun with people who are already burned out at 22.  This is unacceptable.

Type A personalities (otherwise known as the competitive, intense, heart-attacks-waiting-to-happen) have it the worst of all.

Being a Type B personality, I have only my intuition and experience (which are lacking) to use in order to understand these high-strung people.  My room mate just happens to be one.

I swear we should be on “The Odd Couple.”

When she stresses out, I’m cool as a cucumber.  When we both have tons of homework, she’s frantically trying to finish it all and I leisurely flip the pages of my Anthropology text and take frequent breaks to munch on tasty treats.  You should have seen us both on finals week:  I was heavily involved in a caffeine-induced hallucination about riding a pink unicorn, and she was tearfully attempting to cram for her cumulative final.  I’m talking to you, VH1, we need a reality show!

Stay tuned, Boys,  Girls, and Everything in between, our next installment will include easy ways to de-stress and healthily relieve those pesky stress-ies!

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