By: Melissa Coaxum
We’re in college to learn and better our futures. Let’s not have to stress about that any more than we have to.
Curriculum Change
We all know of that one class that everyone always seems to fail while the professor doesn’t care about how you may be doing in their class. Stress relieving activities would be implemented into a teachers syllabus so students can have a day or two to relax. The interventions would include built in days off, extra credit assignments for attending stress relieving activities, and check ins with the professor about how the course is going for them.
Get to Know your Peers
Along with the stress relieving activities would be a chance to get to know the students in your class. Often times, students go through a whole semester in one class and never talk to the person sitting next to them. Through allowing time for students in class to talk to each other and bond, this could reduce the amount of stress they may have in their classes by having a familiar face/person to talk to within that class.
A Better way to Cope
The programs would be twice a day, once during free hour and once in the early evenings so students have an opportunity to attend. Within one of the “mental health” days added to a class, leaders of the programs would come into classes to talk. The sessions would include helpful tips on how to de-stress and healthy coping mechanisms.
Stress and Social Life 