Stress and coping blog: Tips and strategies

 Key concept: Embrace discomfort.  Biology teaches us that muscles contract when sarcomeres shorten. This shortening occurs when muscle filaments (made of myosin and actin) slide next to each other after receiving a signal from the nervous system.  "...your muscles must be broken down before they get stronger." During strength training, the muscle is damaged when force over-exerts the muscle fibers and causes them to tear. This muscle fiber tearing triggers an inflammatory response, leading to healing and protein synthesis. In other words, your muscles must be broken down before they get stronger.  Similarly, students must practice learning new content, studying difficult concepts, and managing stressful moments during exams. In this discussion, we will cover the importance of  prep-work; attention & note-taking; effective study skills; test preparation and anxiety management; Prep-work A massive push right now in education is active recall. We will talk mor...

" Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping ," Jordan B. Peterson, author of 12 Rules for life: An antidote to chaos. Higher education, for me, brought a lot of firsts. My first college class, honor society board position, nursing exam, catheter insertion, rapid response, bedside report, college friend group, girlfriend, and other experiences. On top of these new milestones, I worked a part-time job, helped my family with siblings, and drove a semi-dependable but unpredictable car that left oil stains wherever I parked. Life then, as it is still today, was busy.  In this discussion, I want to deliver some methods I either used - or wish I had known - as a student.  These are simple, easy-to-use mechanisms you can use right now for little or no money. All these tips require is a little effort to structure how to manage your time, energy, and effort - instead of wasting countless hours scrolling through Facechat, Instabook, or watching TikTack. I think these ...