Academic Pressure Creates Stress On The Mind And Body

These expectations are set in hopes that they will help students get into prestigious colleges. An NPR report featured teenagers Tom Poulis and Chelsea Halprin, who shared their thoughts on stress related to high school schedules. Poulis says, “the stress level is very high” due to taking four AP classes, standardized tests, and participating in various after school activities to enhance his college applications. Halprin hoped to attend an Ivy League school. Her schedule included time for homework, class president duties, team sports, mentoring young students, and helping at her synagogue. Despite her impressive schedule, Halprin worried that it would not be enough to meet her goals. The idea that students must overwork themselves and excel in every area has become an emotional and mental burden on teenagers, rather than be a guide to a successful

Here at Greenbrier High School, we have over 1500 students. Out of those 1500, many of us are in challenging and rigorous classes while also participating in extracurricular activities. Many are able to have outstanding grades, while also being active in their school and community. The stressful situations we experience, or adversity, heightens our ability to do well under stress and continue to stay determined. Personally, when I have a large amount of homework or am under a great deal of stress it makes me more determined on performing my best. Without the pressure from my classes, I may not have been able to maintain my high average. From my experiences with adversity, it proves to have a beneficial effect on the way I handle demanding

Stress in college is caused by many other influencing factors. One of these important factors would have to be the expectations set by parents. They are normally the reason students are in college, so pleasing them by getting good grades is almost mandatory. The thought of displeasing out parents can be detrimental to our thought process; meaning that it most likely would cause impaired

In “ College Pressures,” William Zinsser discusses four types of pressures college students go through. Even though he wrote this in 1978, college students today still experience all four of the pressures. The four pressures Zinsser discusses are economic, parental, peer, and self-induced. Today’s college students are becoming more and more disconnected with their passions and are being thrown into the world of practicality. College should be a place of experimentation and discovery, but instead it’s turned into feelings of stress and fear. students are becoming overwhelmed and stressed with the same “economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure and self-induced pressure” Zinsser speaks of in his essay. College students today undergo even more then the college students from Zinssers ' time.

College pressures dominate our lives. They begin to levitate around us and slowly derail our lives. William Zinsser elaborates about the college pressures that modern generations are facing. He reveals multiple commonalities that the typical college student encounters on a daily basis. Zinsser states, “They want a map-right now-that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security, social security, and presumably, a prepaid grave” (12). He is spot on, the pressures demand my attention and won’t take no for an answer. So far I’ve gone head to head with these pressures every day since I started my freshman year in college. For the time that I’ve been here, my mind is overwhelmed and distraught with the amount of stress that gets piled on top of me every single day. I drown in these unrealistic expectations written in those faulty suggestion bars about how to be successful in college and college 101 tips. College pressures surround me like a dull gray cloud. It showers me with expectations and unfinished checklists. College itself is similar to carpooling to hell and back, but with no actual guarantee with a ride back.

With the increasing trend of students attending college after high school, the number of college students are increasing rapidly as well as expectations to do well in every aspect of it. In the article by Amy Yao “Never Let Them See You Sweat: The Myth of Effortless Perfection”, she describes how students are being put more and more pressure to be “perfect” in all aspects that are important in college, especially females. Her claims and use of quotes bring about a perspective of how students may be overworked by the many complicated aspects that go into being a successful student, but it can be looked at with a new perspective of stress builds character.

Kids today are in multiple extracurriculars, and do school work on top of that. Kids do extra studying on top of the class work to get an advantage over the other students in their class. However,Students do not just have pressure from parents and teachers to do well, they put pressure on themselves to be

Liz stays up every night until midnight doing homework. She barely has any time for leisure because of extracurricular activities, and also plays year round sports. When Liz comes home everyday she is overwhelmed by the amount of homework she has. Her parents have very high standards of her and expect her to have a 4.0 GPA all throughout high school. She is constantly feeling pressured to go to college from her parents and forced into a career that she does not want. Students are receiving too much pressure to go to college from high school. Many say college is less stress and less homework than high school. Some studies say that stress may help a student to keep organized

Top performance is achieved with moderate stress at intermittent times, which grows new brain cells that better memory (Bradberry). Stress is usually thought of as damaging, but a certain amount of stress is needed to caution students that they have work to do and deadlines to meet. Having a healthy amount of stress motivates people to remind them to be working. Without enough stress, students will lose inclination to school work, and with too much stress, students can, and sometimes do, have a breakdown. The threat of a collapse means students need to have "coping strategies" that help them manage overwhelming amounts of stress (Bradberry). Moving to a new environment without family, friends, and teachers that know every students' name is stressful on its own, but college students also have to be prepared for new, tougher assignments. This is enough to make a freshman feel as though they are drowning, so every individual needs to find a way to relieve stress. There are healthy ways to relieve stress, like exercise, listening to music, or meditation, that allow students to feel comfortable in their new life. Finding a balance in life that also gives them a good attitude and confidence is worthwhile. Attitudes about their intellect can alter the ability to learn for many

Being a freshman is the hardest of your four years in high school. Have you ever been pressured to be the best person you can be? This is how my year was as a freshman. Freshman year was the most different I never thought I would of found my way around the school when I first started to go there. Freshman year was the best year throughout my years of high school and it was the only year I had friends. During this year I had a lot of anxieties which dealt with me thinking I’m gonna be alone and not have any friends throughout the year to support me through the whole thing. Also, I would think of the pressure of not doing good in any of my classes so I would think it would affect my GPA in the future. The transition from middle school to high school was a different type of thing to do.

The most common thing I heard about college before I got here was that college students are always under a tremendous amount of stress and have no free time to do anything other than school work. I was afraid that I would be so overloaded with school work that I would be miserable and lose the motivation to do any of it. In high school I always waited until the last minute to do any of my assignments and that led to me struggling to keep A’s and B’s. This also led to me stressing out over assignments that I had plenty of time to do. It was a simple problem that I could have solved just by using proper time management.

The most obvious stressor that comes with the life of a college student are their grades. Since students are transitioning from living at home to living on their own, they don’t have anyone to remind them to do their homework or check their grades. This is significant to students for many reasons. As Zinsser said “The transcript has become a sacred document, the passport to security.”(450). Nowadays there are rigorous graduate programs that run a tight ship making sure only the best of the best get in. “A is for Admirable and B is for Borderline...”(Zinsser 450).

Being a senior in High School comes with a lot and of one them is stress. Stress is what

In college life, students face many pressures. One of my biggest stressors was keeping my student scholarship. After coming in to college with a 3.3 grade point average, I knew that keeping a 3.0 in college, for my scholarship, was going to be a challenge that I had not yet experienced. This caused me to work even harder and sometimes even too hard. The scholarship played a large factor in choosing Baldwin Wallace as my school of choice, so retaining my reward is of the utmost importance to both me personally, and my parents financially. As I began classes I realized that the work load seemed a lot larger than high school, and sometimes as if it were never going to end. I soon realized how to balance my time between school work and making grades, as well as meeting new people and having fun. There are many enjoyable things that make college the great experience it has been so far, so finding an equilibrium of hard work and good times has been one the best new attributes I have

Based on these findings from research done previously I feel that this study is important. Firstly, we need to understand what causes the stressors and how it affects the individual. For example, if you have an entire university with stressed students, not being productive, not performing well academically perhaps thinking of dropping out of university because of the overwhelming anxiety; it can be detrimental to the institution in terms of status and students in terms of individual realisation. Secondly, we soon have to formulate effective and efficient stress management guidelines as we