Stress on college students

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STRESS ON COLLEGE STUDENTS

Thesis : College students are suffering from lots of stresses that are caused by environmental , social , and academic problems . This results to physical and emotional problems and can also affect their academic life

College life is perhaps the hardest stage in a student 's educational struggle . As I always see and hear , most of the college students are really finding it hard to cope at this stage of their life . Along with problems in academics , college students seem to suffer

more from a lot of stresses from other people and also from their environment

It makes me think of some questions , like what are the different sources of stress that affects college student ? How do these stresses affect them with their personal and academic life ? Lastly , what are the possible ways of reducing or avoiding these stresses

With these questions in mind , I am thinking of many speculations and answers that can explain the stress on college students , their sources effects on the students and the preventive actions or solutions on relieving these stresses

For me , one of the sources of stress for a college student is his environment . Considering the place where he lives , a student that came from a far place , upon entering college , will be staying in a dormitory or a house near the school . I think that these will bring him stress since he need to adapt first to his new environment before he can actually live normally in his college life

Here comes the concept of home sickness especially for the case of freshmen since they are not used too in living far away from their home This may lead to another type of stress which is the emotional stress as they will miss their family and friends

Another source of stress that I can think of are the people around a college student , ranging from his roommate , classmates and to his teachers . The peer pressure that a college student may experience will cause him to suffer from stress . For example , a college freshman who just entered a university was invited to attend an orientation party . In this type of occasion , he may meet different stress causing factors such as the pressure to drink alcohol or use drugs or even worse , the pressure to engage in sex

It will be hard for him to decide what to do especially if he is not used to drink alcohol or use drugs or have sex with strangers . But he will also think that if he will not participate , he may be out casted by the people around him , and of course , that will cause him a lot of stress

In speaking of people that causes stress , I can also think of people that are taking the same professional degree as a college student Different students have different intellectual capacities and when a college student is behind the intellectual performance of his co students , it may cause him stress...