3 Ways Freshman Can Avoid College Stress

Hello upcoming college students

Although almost all my students are already in college, for those students who are entering college there are a few important practices I believe you must implement and keep up if you want to have a stress free college life and avoid the dreaded college student stresses.

The first half of my university career was god-awful, filled with stress and worry primarily from disorganization and a lack of adequate study skills.  So I’d like to give up and coming college students about to enter the wonderful world of college some friendly advice on how to avoid college stress and keep it off for the next four years.

Number 1: Get a focused college study methodology and mechanize it so that it becomes automatic.

Mechanizing your college study methodology is incredibly important for long term stress free college careers.  Once the system is automatic it stops becoming a burden.  It becomes a daily ritual like brushing your teeth or taking a shower.  Here are some starting pointers that can get you started.

Make sure you have a preset one page step by step guide of how to study for a test, repeat the same one page guides for assignments, readings and papers.  Make sure you have a pre-set study time each day.  Choose 30 minutes during the day that you know will be available and make sure you do nothing but study.  If you don’t have any work that day, you’re not thinking hard enough lol.  You will always find more work to do, make sure you keep that time of the day just for college work and you will see huge returns.

Number 2:  Don’t put to much attention into the first set of marks you get back.

I know quite a few students who get straight A’s throughout high school and expect the same result in college.  Usually if you are at a high end college, that won’t be the case.  Expect to get some B’s and even some C’s.  Although you want to get A’s, don’t freak out if you aren’t doing well from the beginning.  Adapting to college takes time and stressing out over the C isn’t going to help the situation.

Number 3:  Keep a proper diet

Many students entering university are for the first time, leaving home.  Without parents, many students end up making bad nutritional choices, particularly when you live off college cafeteria food.  This usually results in the ‘freshman 15.’  To solve this problem you only have to follow one very simple and easy rule.  You can eat whatever you want after you drink a full glass of water and a full plate of salad (no heavy dressing).  Or if that’s not possible, just remember to eat something that is actually ‘alive’ (i.e. raw veg) with every meal.

So anything I should add?  Want to know more?  Please comment below or check out my college mentorship program.

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