Record Level Of Stress Found In College Freshman Summary

“Oh sweetie, don’t stress out and worry so much. These are the best years of your life!” The article titled “Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshman” by Tamar Lewin describes the amount of stress and the record level of emotional turmoil faced by college students today. I am not surprised at all by the facts and statistics that are shared in this article, college students today are faced with many different obstacles than their parents faced as college students and have more reasons to stress over their education. According to Lewin, the emotional health for freshman in college has dwindled down to the lowest level they have ever recorded. An annual survey that has been collecting data from incoming college students for 25 years

The temperature is mild, but it feels very warm to me because my body is adjusting to the warmth after walking outside in the cold for so long. My close friend Sophie is sitting to the left of me and everybody else in the room is a mere stranger to me. It’s 2:00 in the afternoon, and I can smell the gas station coffee I bought about 20 minutes ago and my spaghetti and meatball smelling sweat because I tend to sweat when I go from a cold environment to a warm one. The professor is lecturing about something that I’m not really paying attention to, because I am stubborn and think that I already know everything, when I don’t. Typical of teenagers to have this “I know everything” attitude, right? Well I didn’t know everything. The class was boring to me and I initially thought it was going to be extremely simple so I didn’t bother much to listen to the professor during lecture time because I thought I could learn all of the content easily from the book and my mind was usually focused on something else, because coffee tends to make my mind race and focus on the thoughts in my head rather than the person who is speaking in the room. Sophie and I liked to quietly converse during this time as well. We’d gossip about our tall, narcissistic, foul-smelling friend that never knew how to stay out of other people’s business, or how the class we were in made us want to take a nap because of how uneventful and anticlimactic it was. We probably babbled to each

I paid little attention in class because I was under the impression that the class would be an easy A. Little did I know, I was in for a real wake-up call. That wake-up call first rang when I took my first test in the class. To say that I was upset when I obtained back the rectangular, shamrock green colored Scantron sheet and discovered the faintly red stamped ‘24’ on the right corner of the paper would be an understatement. How did I get 73% on my very first economics test? This was terrifying to me because prior to taking this text I had never gotten a score lower than 85% on a test in high school. Unfortunately, I did not see this as a red flag but instead brushed it off and thought “this is just the first test, no big deal. I still have five more tests to go and there is still time for improvement.” If I would’ve kept this mind set and studied harder for the following five tests I would’ve saved myself from the copious amounts of stress I was about to face. Being the stubborn young buck I am I didn’t study harder. I instead kept getting scores of 25 or lower out of 30 on the tests and that’s when I began to panic. Soon enough, the panic turned to stress, and instead of staying home and studying harder to get better test scores, I went out and partied to try to take my mind off of the stress. It didn’t help that the majority of people that went to these parties were completely different from me in a sense that most of them had dropped out