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Jan 30, 2017

10 Things You Do When You Are Too Stressed Out To Function

This weekend, I started freaking out over my to-do list. School work was piling up, outside projects for different extracurriculars were taking a lot longer to finish than expected and I was trying to get some rest because, you know, it's the weekend. As the to-do list started onto its second page, I did what any self-respecting college student would do... I procrastinated! In case you were wondering, here are some coping strategies for when you just can't.

1. EAT!!

Quite simply, we stress eat. Pizza, a pint of Ben & Jerry's, popcorn or pretty much anything we can get our grimy little hands on!

2. Take a nap.

Yeah, I will totally be more productive when I am less tired. Six hours later.....

3. Scroll through Facebook

We all know that five-minute break is about to turn into an hour!

4. Complain to your roommate/friends down the hall.

Yeah, they really don't care, but they listen... and that's why we love them!

5. Watch Netflix.

I knew when I started that new season my grades were going out the door, sometimes you just have to take the L.

6. Look up useless information/videos/memes.

Buzzfeed: one-hour minimum, Youtube: 30-minute minimum. Finding out how to get your skydiving license even though you are probably never going to get it: priceless.

7. Clean.

You know it's bad when you have gone this low. Usually starts with the desk. Then maybe your closet. Then all of a sudden you are color-coding your sock drawer.

8. Listen/Find new music.

Beware, you may actually find good music. Turn into a hipster and lose all your friends.

9. Tinder.

Do I really need to explain.......

10. Go for a run

You know, cause it's like spring break season and you don't want to be that guy wearing a t-shirt at the beach or you are literally just trying to run away from your problems!

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10 Things You Do When You Are Too Stressed Out To Function

Procrastinating at its best. Which is what I am doing right now!

1. EAT!!

2. Take a nap.

3. Scroll through Facebook

4. Complain to your roommate/friends down the hall.

5. Watch Netflix.

6. Look up useless information/videos/memes.

7. Clean.

8. Listen/Find new music.

9. Tinder.

10. Go for a run

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2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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