Stress at Williams (and Elsewhere
. . .)
This
section of the Peer Health Surf-In web site was
produced from a pamphlet entitled "Stress At
Williams", written by Ten-to-One, a peer counseling
organization at Williams that closed its
doors in 1994.
| Every
college student has to deal with increased
workload and competition as well as the pressure
of living away from home, but each year has its
own specific pressures. First-year students are
faced with leaving home and the security of
family and friends and then expected to make new
friends and adjust to a new environment.
Sophomores hit the notorious sophomore slump. The
excitement of freshman year has worn off and you
can see no light at the end of the tunnel. As
Juniors, Williams students on campus have to deal
with friends studying abroad and/or the
responsibilities of being a J.A. while also
coping with the core classes for your major.
Seniors have the pressures of job interviews and
applications for grad, law, or medical school,
not to mention the fear of having to enter the
"real" world. |
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On top of all these pressures, there is the omnipresent
emphasis on perfection. The typical Eph seems to be able
to do everything and to do it all well. Everyone is good-looking,
intelligent, athletic, and artistically talented- or so
it seems. But if we buy into this, we're deluding
ourselves. Although all students at Williams are talented,
nobody is perfect and everybody has
problems.
Information
on stress:
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