A Little Less Stress

There’s probably nothing I stress out about than taking tests. Whenever I study for tests and then I get the actual test in front of me, anxiety takes over and I just blank and forget everything I study, so me and tests don’t really get along. And I stress out even more when it comes to taking midterm and finals. Me and my roommate decided to relax we would get some food at Conn, and then just walk around. We usually always eat in our room, Easy Mac or Ramen but we thought to help relax we’d actually eat a real meal. After we ate, we just walked around campus, down to Davis and then back around past Morrill and the Student Center and then back to our room. Walking is something that really relaxes me and doing it with someone else also really helps me. When we came back to our room I found that I was actually ready to study for my tests and it was easier to concentrate when I had an open mind. Something I also found that helped relieve stress was just hanging out with some friends and talking about stuff that wasn’t school related. Stress is something that I deal with on a day to day basis with my back so I’m used to finding things that can help me relieve stress, but having to relieve stress at school, because of school isn’t really something that I found easy to do. Using my tens unit is also actually very relaxing, so I used it while we walked around again the other night. I never realized that just talking a stroll around campus would actually prepare me more for studying and to help relieve some stress. I took my Geography midterm today and after walking around last night and then studying, I felt really good about taking the test and new all of the information. I think that’s something I’m going to take into consideration when I prepare for finals as well.

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