College Life Hacks

By Darrel Jefferson


Everyone knows that college is stressful. Anyone who has gone through it knows how rough it can be. If the stress is becoming a little too much for you to handle, try some of these de-stressing tips and tackle your work with confidence!

Motivation, If you need an extra push of motivation while you study, try the rewards system. Instead of snacking on those M&Ms while you read your text book, place an M&M on every paragraph, and only once you get to that paragraph in your reading allow yourself to eat it. You will be surprised at how quickly you can finish your reading when you motivate yourself.

Here are helpful tips for surviving the semester with an annoying roommate. Learn their schedule and know where and who they spend time with. This may seem like stalker advice, but if you want to avoid your annoying roommates at all costs, you will need to learn how they spend their time-so you can plan not to be there when they are around.

Saving Time , If you do not have time to eat a full blown cooked meal in between studying sessions, learn how to utilize your food and microwave. Rather than scramble your eggs on the stove top, you can crack your eggs into a mug and scramble them in under 2 minutes in the microwave.

Even if you purposefully avoid them, you will have to interact with them or their stuff on some occasion. In these situations politeness and tact can go a long way. If you need to use the space they or their stuff is occupying, ask them if you could you use the space in the near future.

Social Interaction, Interacting with other people is another great way to relieve stress. Talk with your roommates. Call your mom. Visit a neighbor. Take ten minutes and join the party down the hall. Getting your mind off your problems and building social relationships is always encouraging and enriching.

Microwave, The microwave truly is a gift from the College gods. It can sometimes seem like there is not enough room in that small oven to fit everything you want to microwave. Instead of doing two separate trips of radioactivity you can put a second bowl on top of a mug and microwave two bowls at the same time.

Meditate, Simply stopping everything - movement, thought, worrying etc. can help you relax. Choose whatever method you want. Yoga, meditation, prayer, or simply lying on the floor with the lights out can help you regain perspective, self-confidence, and relieve that stress.

But most of the time those roommates pursuing a business degree or a human resource degree are not so abominable that they need to be evicted. As with all least than perfect situations that get on our nerves, all we can really do is grin and bear it and resolve to choose better roommates next semester.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment