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The University Daily Kansan: GRADUATION ISSUE
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Many colleges support relaxing finals week
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Finals are a vicious cycle.
You have to study to pass. If you pass you get a degree. If you fail a final, you have to enroll in another class. You have to study to pass.
Finale on a unique cycle.
Finals are a vicious cycle.
with finals week looming like a clock tower, the next few weeks have the potential to be pretty stressful, just ask your blood pressure. While colleges of yesteryear might have taken the gritty attitude of "tuff it out," many institutions are now helping students with counseling and courses to help manage and reduce stress.
William Prescott, associate director at UCLA student psychological services, runs short three-session workshops at the university's stress clinic and said he sees an increase in student stress between midterms and finals.
"Students face a fair amount of stress that probably hits about midterms," he said.
To reduce stress levels, the UCLA stress clinic teaches students a life
ferent relaxation techniques and talks about stress.
"If they manage to relax and they're still saying the things that scare themselves to death, they're going to be back in a state of stress rather quickly," Prescott said.
One of the relaxation techniques is deep breathing, which can help a student lower stress levels. The lower levels will help a student concentrate on the task at hand and presumably test or study more effectively. Prescott relates the experience to walking out of an exam and beginning to remember answers as you walk away. The more relaxed environment of a hallway puts a mind in a state where it can begin to fully function.
But the deep breathing relaxation technique isn't for everyone, he says. Getting too relaxed won't put the mind in a state where it's firing at full speed.
with academic stress.
Rob Sepich, a health educator with university health services at University of Wisconsin, said that students often seek help in dealing
The bulk of student's stress comes from the small day-to-day events, Sepich said, not from catastrophic events. To deal with daily stresses, he recommends taking time each day to do something pleasurable, from listening to a CD to taking a walk. In addition to reducing stress levels, it will also increase attention levels when returning to work, he said.
While the bulk of students come to the health services department seeking traditional counseling services, the University of Wisconsin also offers students massage therapy at a discounted rate of $30 for 50 minutes of massage.
Counseling and therapy may address the bulk of student's stress concerns, but many students are beginning to turn to dietary supplements to help reduce stress. Not the usual caffeine and nicotine, Tums and Vivrin, however.
Dr. Ray Sahelian, author of the book Mind Boosters, which discusses how dietary supplements can improve health, says caffeine may
RELAXATION TECHNIQUES
- **deep breathing**
- **do something pleasurable**
- **message therapy**
- **take dietary supplements**
- **get enough sleep**
neip a student stay up late to study but the information may not stick the way one would hope.
"Caffeine will prohibit people from entering a deep stage of sleep, and good sleep is essential for memory consolidation," he said. "During deep sleep the brain reorganizes and place all the information it has acquired during the day. It also helps regenerate the brain chemicals and hormones necessary for full alertness the following day."
Sahelian also recommends taking a few dietary supplements such as B complex and fish oils, which can help with brain function.
Carbohydrate lunches, he said,
can make a person sluggish midday,
and make for better dinners
closer to bedtime, when you'll hope-
fully be in for a night of sleep, not
cramming.
Students who want the As better get the Zs before tests
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"No, over the last six days, actually," he said.
What's that, Jack? Nineteen hours of sleep in one day?
Look at Jack Reimer, and envy him. The DePaul University freshman has just logged more than 19 hours of sleep.
Oh well. So much for envy, right? Not so, according to the partially-bloodshot 18-year-old.
"One of the guys in my chemistry lab class said he hasn't slept for two days," Reimer says. "I don't know if that's true, but he looked pretty dead, so who knows."
Such is one of the great ironies of the college experience, and perhaps life as well. The more sleep one needs, the less he or she usually gets. Students need to stretch their wisdom and memorization skills to this limit during exam season, yet students who participate in cramming sessions and allnight study breaks often sleep even less than they would during
normal hours of operation.
His picture is the portrait of the American slumber culture, according to the National Sleep Foundation, which in 2001 found that two-thirds of all adult Americans do not get eight hours of sleep per night.
Of greater concern is that one in five adults polled said that a lack of sleep is taking a toll on their everyday lives, a number that foundation Vice President James C. Walsh, said has risen markedly in the last five years.
He said that such problems naturally worsen for students during finals time, since the more work one does, the less relief they usually get. Walsh's solution? Simple.
"Learn to manage your time better," he said. "And don't underestimate the value of a good night's sleep. A lot of people — most, in fact — choose to disregard the problem and ignore it, but loss of sleep has more impact on one's daily performance that most people know."
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