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Surviving Midterm Stress

Four Tips to Survival

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Well it's midterm season and that means stress. The attempt to ace all your midterms, or at least pass them, and survive until break. The countdown until break has started forever ago and you are just trying to survive until your sweet release. Just make it through, you can do it-I KNOW you can do it. But this time is, nonetheless stressful whether you have a 4.0 or trying to hit a 2.5 GPA. Here are some tips on getting through this obnoxiously stressful time.

Make sure you KNOW when all of your midterms and exams are:

I know that seems like common sense, but planning is key. If you keep an accurate and up to date schedule than you create a strategy to take these exams by storm. You can figure out when to study for what and plan on getting five hours minimum every night/day.

Make sure you SLEEP:

I get it. I really do. There are just never enough hours in the day, especially around midterms but trust me, no one wants to fall asleep in the middle of a midterm they've spent hours studying for. That is incredibly counter productive and trust me when I say that everyone will remember it. (just not for the right reasons).

On that note, make sure you eat and eat well:

Starving yourself or forgetting to eat can have the same effects of not getting any sleep and it can do some serious damage to your metabolism, especially when so many people focus on not gaining the freshman fifteen, not eating can put your body into survival mode and actually make you gain weight, plus everyone really is crankier when they're hungry.

Make sure you don't cut yourself off from all human contact:

I've done it. I'll be the first to admit that I've locked myself in a room for hours working on nothing but studying for exams, but isolating yourself makes your body stress out even more because they're no release. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy in more ways than one and a stressed out body absorbs less energy, making it harder to retain the information you are isolating yourself to attain.

Honestly, you're fine. You know yourself more than anyone else. You know how you are doing and if you are going to stress cram, no one can stop you from doing you. So don't stress, just kickass on midterms and enjoy your break like you deserve too.

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