How to beat student stress
Posted by staff / December 4, 2009
It’s that time of year again students, winter finals. Culminating assignments are due, exams are looming, and the pressure is on. Before you start calling in bomb threats to your school in an attempt to delay your exams, check out the Study Hacks guide to beating student stress.
Including small strategies into your weekly routine can make all the difference.
Switch from to-do lists to time blocking. Simply listing everything you have to do becomes an exercise in futility once it grows beyond a few items. Time blocking helps you label each task for the day with the time block during which you’ll finish it, forcing you to recognize how long tasks really take and how much free time you really have available.
Adopt a Sunday ritual. Your schedule is like a bad drug. Give it a chance and it will wrench itself right out of your control. The Sunday ritual keeps you in command. Retreat somewhere quiet, weekly to knock off a big block of focused work, and make a battle plan for the week to follow.
Read on for all the stress busting tips.
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