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-15 posts tagged "stress"
Kelly Burke | Tuesday, October 23, 2018
You fell in love with yearning at the age of 19. You met on a humid night. You remember being pleased with the humidity, not minding how it fluffed the hair near your temples into baby curls. Not minding how the water proof fabric of your rain jacket folded into your skin, making you feel
Mike Donovan | Friday, April 13, 2018
The world, I’m sorry to say, is out to get you. You can run, hide, lose yourself in the dulcet tones of “Levels” by Avicii (remember?), but the world will sneak behind you and bro-punch you in the back (like Chad from your ACCT 20200). Scientists (ugh!) and health professionals (double ugh!) offer all kinds
Maeve Filbin | Thursday, December 7, 2017
With finals week fast approaching, students are preparing for a barrage of long nights, last minute cram sessions, impulsive snacking and accidental fasting. Anxiety will settle over campus like a thick fog, turning even the most prepared students into stress-induced zombies. Even though finals season is stressful, Diane Fox, the director of the Office for Student
Gina Twardosz | Thursday, September 28, 2017
Several Saint Mary’s students are taking Notre Dame’s Mindfulness and Meditation course to become more mindful and less stressed. Senior Kate Zurovchak said Mindfulness and Meditation focuses on being present in the moment. “Mindfulness is being present in the moment. People usually get caught up in a lot of things, like with stress or anxiety,”
Katelyn Valley | Tuesday, September 26, 2017
While you are in school, it can be so easy to sink into a feeling of being the least prepared, the least intelligent and that you are not handling responsibilities with the ease everyone else seems to. Personally, this feeling always sets in around the fourth or fifth week of school, when I typically have
Lauren Weldon | Thursday, September 7, 2017
It’s that time of year again. Football is back, the library is starting to feel crowded and students all around are starting to break out their business professional attire. That’s right: it’s hiring season. Whether you’re a senior trying to figure out what the heck to do with your future, a junior trying to score
Letter to the Editor | Monday, February 6, 2017
The great irony of learning a new language is that you know you sound slightly “off” (read: horrible), yet you still have to practice to improve. To me, speaking Spanish as a non-native speaker often seems frustrating and silly, but in this sense, I believe I am like the typical Notre Dame student — afraid
R.J. Stempak | Tuesday, January 31, 2017
At the top of my Twitter feed sat a tweet that read: “I’m figuring it out.” Optimism is exhausting. Pessimism is toxic. I didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions, partly because telling myself that this arbitrary cutoff will mark the beginning of a “new me” just makes me laugh, and partly because I am always
Elizabeth Greason | Monday, January 23, 2017
As an only child, I grew up taking quiet for granted. It was simply a part of my life. When I went to bed, our apartment went silent with the exception of my parents’ muffled mumbles and the low drone of the TV from the living room. On top of being an only child, I
Gina Twardosz | Tuesday, December 6, 2016
With finals and the end of the semester right around the corner, student stress levels are on the rise. Two Saint Mary’s professors — Jennifer Bauer, assistant professor of nursing, and Catherine Pittman, associate professor of psychology — both studied stress and its effect on students. Bauer said she conducted a stress study on sophomore