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Mrs. Morris
English 111-02
07 June 2010
Effects of stress on students in college
Many students face stress as they try to mix up busy lives, school, and work; while they are trying also to have time with family and friend. For some student, stress becomes almost a way of living. However, it is really dangerous to let stress become student’s way of living in college, because some stress levels can lead to a terrible effect that changes completely student’s life and it may result to a fail. When the brain is familiar with stress, a physical reaction is triggered; and it easily damages the memory, and may lead to further mental reactions or misconduct.
College has many levels of studying and thinking. Some levels of stress play a terrible role in student’s brain mentally. Lack of concentration is the first result of mental reaction that occur the most frequent in the student. When the brain is attacked by stress, it blocks his way of thinking; and our memory is comparing to jungle. In the jungle there are wild plants, twisted trees and millions of animals. It is difficult to learn actively when our memory is dealing with diverse situations. The most likely things student can think of by then are the problem which caused to stress. Some courses in college level require critical thinking and productivity that is different to an auto pilot. An auto pilot student is the student who always asks for the direction to solve problems, and he is expecting that all the problems are done the same which is not always true in college. Low productivity, which is the second effect of mental reaction, in student may result to a fail or confusion in class that can lead to dropout.
College Student Stress Coping
College students facing academic, social, and other stresses such as finances and how to cope with them. The most common stress most college students face is the stress from the work load that is common in a higher education system. This is the major challenge, and you will be facing without the close guidance you may have previously enjoyed from a teacher or parent; Social stress seems to be more ...
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After the brain is massively attacked and challenged by the higher level of stress, it leads to the physical disorders such as missing classes, coming to class late, dropping out and panic during exam. Mind and body are inextricably linked and the interaction between them can produce physical changes. Headaches and fatigue are often directly caused by the bodily responses that accompany stress. A frequent headache is among students reasons of missing class and doing poorly on the test. Fatigue, weariness from labor or stress, may consequently leads to uncompleted homework or tasks; and unable to retain teacher’s comments. It is very hard for a student to cover the grade of failing on a test. Because of missing too many classes and tests, the student will drop these classes or dropout of college. For academic disqualification reason, 28% of students are dropping out of college; and 3 % for the reason of mental or emotional issues. Many students don’t find school interesting, if they are about to fail.
Misconduct is another common effect of higher level of stress. Student’s misconduct refers to a behavior not conforming to prevailing standards or laws in college; impropriety. When the mind is affected by stress, the student is not anymore the master of his body. He will easily lead to cheating, sexual misconduct and manipulating others. Because student won’t be able to read and complete his homework, he will be exposed to cheating to make up his grade. Statistic shows that 75 to 98 percent of college students have cheated in their academic careers. Panic during test or exam is a normal reaction to a student who didn’t take time to study or do his work properly. Another effect of misconduct caused by the stress in student is sexual misconduct. Sexual misconduct is defined as sexual contact without consent by an acquaintance or a stranger and includes: intentional touching without consent, either of the victim or when the victim is forced to touch, directly or through clothing, another person’s genitals or breast.
Student Stress: Effects and Solutions
Student Stress: Effects and Solutions. ERIC Digest 85-1. Stress is any situation that evokes negative thoughts and feelings in a person. The same situation is not evocative or stressful for all people, and all people do not experience the same negative thoughts and feelings when stressed. One model that is useful in understanding stress among students is the person-environmental model. According ...
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Finally, don’t let the effects destroy your college life whatever your reasons of stress are. Some stress level can transport to a terrible effect that changes completely student’s life in mental reactions and physical disorder and leads to misconduct, but the powerful key that brings success to our lives is controlling stress. Always remember that your thoughts tell your brain where to put energy and attention; controlling stress helps you to mind set your thoughts, to help your body stay healthy, and to make you feel under protected against all effects of stress; then you will find success in college.
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Works Cited
* http://www.uic.edu/depts/wellctr/docs/Stress%20and%20the%20College%20Student.pdf
* http://www.duck9.com/College-Student-Drop-Out-Rates.htm
* http://educationportal.com/articles/75_to_98_Percent_of_College_Students_Have_Cheated.html
