My Primary Stressor Of My Junior Year

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

In high schools today, most seniors are piled down with work and fatigued from after school activities and jobs. On average, most students spend 7-8 hours in school and most have after school jobs which they work for at least 6 hours. Most teachers and parents would say it’s because they’re in preparation for college and adult life. High school seniors are tensed and stressed because they are trying their best to succeed and make something out of themselves. But how can they do that if they have such busy schedule?

Freshman Year and Senior Year are both very stressful years of high school. Freshman year I made new friends because I was at a new school with some new people. I also tried to make sure my grades stayed up because now that I’m in high school I have to start thinking what I want to do when I graduate, what college I want to go. I’ll have to keep my grades up now because I want to be able to get into a good college and I will be stressing out because I still don’t know what I want to do when I graduate from high school or where, as most of the other will be too.

Some students are stressful in their senior year, because they want to go some good college and they need higher GPA and they need more AP classes. They want to achieving more thing and a better life.

Being a senior I had already expected that life won’t go that easy. Throughout my Junior year I was being prepared through my AVID class and from all the different articles, and activities we did in class. Kind of reality hasn’t hit me yet, I was making a huge list that marks all I wanted to accomplish in my senior year. But there is this thing called ‘stress’ that is invented and it began to slowly eating my brain away. Just a little stressed what I tell everyone who ask how am I doing. Stress is something we all need to be prepared for in our early stages in life but we can’t help it due to many trials and tribulations that come in our everyday life. For high school seniors like me some of them already developed this disease called, ‘senioritis’ if you haven’t known yet it's a disease that affects your mind, and body from being able to function properly due to the amount loads of work that you have to do. Well if you have good time

As a Richland Collegiate High School student, I am always attacked by stressors in my academic life. The stress provoked by school-related objects often bled into my home and social life. It created an unhealthy environment where I felt weighed down by the stress. Due to the stress, I often lost my appetite and started sleeping less. My mother worried that I was depressed or that I was developing an eating disorder, but I just did not know how to pick myself up and just get things done. I lacked motivation, self-control, and a healthy balance of work and relaxation. Throughout the course, I have been picking up on some of the strategies I can use to help alleviate my stress and subsequently improve other aspects of my life.

In Seventh grade, I was starting a new high school and was able to be carefree. I was able to slack off and get away with it. During my Seventh grade year, I was a happy. I was able to strive for straight A’s and still be stress free. I made new friends that understood me and I kept my friends close by. It was satisfying to know the environment around me and know my surroundings. As the years went by, I still continued to take the easy path. I wanted an easygoing school year where I didn’t have stress on my plate. Now, in my junior year of highschool, I have a bunch load of work and stress. Since I had reached high school, I needed more of a challenge. I needed something that would allow me to improve myself and become better. My parents had always told me that education was the key to a happy life. Receiving good grades and doing well would bring me happiness in the future. I had strived to become better and going through the many challenges that appeared was one of the obstacles that I had to

The transition from junior high to high school was tough for me. The amount of homework and difficulty of tests did not phase me in junior high. But in high school, the stress level was too much to deal with, at first. I talked to my parents and even my counsellor to find ways to distress myself and reaffirm the positives parts in life. They all suggested different ways to deal with it. The things they suggested were their own personal ways to deal with the stress in their lives and these did not work for me. I realized finding a way to reaffirm the positive parts in life was not something I could search up online or ask someone but was something I had to figure out on my own. When I start to get overwhelmed with school or work, I often go to my driveway and play basketball. Playing basketball is a way I can forget about the struggles I am dealing with and just focus on positive thoughts. The method of distress myself by playing basketball only worked up until the start of semester two of grade eleven. The amount of stress I had from all my core courses had become unbearable. I used to go out and instantly forget about whatever it was stressing me out. But then whatever I did, I could not divert my mind, my struggles.

To an untutored observer of my nightly homework routine, it might appear that I am attempting to deal with an intensely emotional situation. However, despite the fact that many assignments are given approximately a week before the due date, I always manage to leave them until the night before. Nevertheless, as a relatively exceptional student I am able to escape punishment with this on a regular basis. That is, until my junior year, when I attempted to juggle three AP classes along with a handful of honors courses. Finally, I began to notice how detrimentally this tendency affected my schoolwork. Stress added up throughout the year, and by the time June rolled around it felt as though I had aged at least a decade. Thankfully, the summer months

Throughout my childhood I had always been a very anxious kid; the kind who would cry at being left alone at a Walmart for 0.234 seconds and would chew at their nails in a very unhealthy way. It was always a problem, but never a problem too big. This all changed my freshman year of high school. The idea of a NEW school, NEW people, and NEW daily schedules, made my first year very hard. This was my breaking point.

First off, adjusting to academic factors in the freshmen year can create stress for students in a variety of ways. First of all, first-year students experience stress while trying to keep up with the new academic workloads in college, which are completely different and more challenging than the workloads in high school. To illustrate this, in Alan Schwartz’s article in the

Stress is an expected part of the high school lifestyle. We all get told as freshmen to “do everything,” but when Guidance Counselor Laura Cline is asked how to not stress so much, she advises to slow down a bit, and to not do everything. Saint Thomas Aquinas has a diversity of classes to help you push yourself to the limits, but maybe that is too much.

We have all dealt with varying amounts of stress throughout our lives. The methods we use to deal with the stress, and our belief of the effectiveness of those methods affects our psychological well-being. Although I have been stressed out many times over the past few years, I was most stressed out this past semester because I had lots of work to do. I knew coming into the semester that I probably signed up for more than I could handle, but there was nothing I could get myself to remove because I was interested in everything I signed up for. In retrospect, this semester was not as busy as I expected it to be, but there were a few weekends where I felt overwhelmed with all that I had to do. The coping strategies that I used this past semester and throughout my life are mental disengagement, active coping, focus on and venting emotions, and use of emotional social support.

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

In my opinion I do not have many significant stressors in my life such as financial issues or family problems, although I have recently become more stressed when it comes to money after having to quit my job due to a lack of time in my schedule. Although I wasn’t required to have a job to pay for things such as my tuition or rent and utilities it was nice having my own money to spend as needed. Now I am having to restrict myself from buying as much as I had before because I feel guilty using my parent’s money when they are already paying for so much. One of my biggest constant stressors is my academic performance, I have become so concerned with maintaining a high academic standard that I become very overwhelmed. When this happens I push other important things and people to the side as I become more consumed with school. Along with my classes I take on a lot of responsibilities, probably more than I should, when it comes to campus organizations. I spend so much of my energy trying to please others that I forget about myself and what I need, this which overtime adds to the stress I accumulate on a daily basis. As I am reaching the end of my senior year and am trying to make decisions about graduate schools and the type of job I would like to obtain after I finish school this adds even more stress and anxiety to my life.