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5 Steps To Avoiding A Mid-Semester Breakdown

Follow these steps to avoid getting too overwhelmed and prevent yourself from having a breakdown during the semester.

Feb 20, 2017

5 Steps To Avoiding A Mid-Semester Breakdown

College puts a lot of stress on students and can lead students to have breakdowns in the middle of the semester. With homework, exams, work, and more, students face a lot of pressure and it can be hard to keep up with everything. Here are five steps to avoid a mid-semester breakdown or crisis.

1. Make to-do lists

A good way to stay on top of everything you have to get done is to make to-do lists. If you write everything down, it’s easier to keep track of what you have left to do. Making a to-do list will let you know what work you still need to get done and start getting it done without getting too overwhelmed.

2. Get enough sleep

While it may be hard, getting enough sleep will help your mental health and help you avoid getting too stressed. Plan out your time well to make sure you can get at least six or seven hours of sleep most nights. Some nights you might get barely any sleep, but if you keep up on your sleep overall you’ll be more productive and less stressed.

3. Take time for yourself

The best way to keep yourself from becoming overwhelmed and having a breakdown is to take time for yourself. When you take the time to do things you love or just time away from doing work, you will be less stressed and you can relieve the anxiety that you’ve built up.

4. Stay on top of your homework

Professors assign a lot of homework and with five or six classes the homework can begin piling up. When you don’t stay on top of all of your homework and studying, you will lead yourself to have a mid-semester breakdown or crisis. It may be hard, but if you keep up with all of your homework, you can avoid becoming too stressed.

5. Plan a fun weekend

In addition to taking time for yourself, planning a fun weekend with friends will prevent you from becoming overwhelmed and having a breakdown. It can be a full weekend trip to somewhere a few hours away or just a weekend of exploring and going to new places in your college area. Get a big group together and rent out an Airbnb and you’ll have a great weekend that will keep you from having a breakdown.

Doing these things will prevent you from becoming too stressed or overwhelmed during the semester. Follow these steps to keep yourself from having a mid-semester breakdown or crisis.

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1. Make to-do lists

2. Get enough sleep

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4. Stay on top of your homework

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

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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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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.

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

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