{"id":8185,"date":"2016-12-06T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=8185"},"modified":"2016-12-06T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T15:22:00","slug":"finals-week-is-coming-take-care-of-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/8185","title":{"rendered":"Finals Week is coming; Take care of yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8186\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2016\/12\/Stressed-Man-200x248.gif\" alt=\"Stressed Man\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\" \/>(12.6.16) By Alyssa Nehring&#8211;<\/strong>Coming back from Thanksgiving break and jumping right into finals week can be stressful for students. Finals give students a lot to worry about, including passing classes, GPA, being eligible for the next semester of athletics, and even graduation.<\/p>\n<p>The levels of stress quickly rise throughout the pressure of finals week. Bobbi Meister, on-campus counselor, is an independently licensed clinical social worker. She says she can feel the stress levels, \u201cWhen the students come back after Thanksgiving break is when it sets in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meister notices other signs of stress as the semester comes to an end. \u201cStudents are either too busy to come in or the session is school orientated,\u201d comments Meister. More and more students are coming into student health, however. \u201cThis could be caused by stress\u201d, says Meister.<\/p>\n<p>Meister has some tips to combat finals-related stress. Having a plan or creating a timeline is a good way to start decreasing finals stress. Once a plan is in place, prioritize the plan any way you want. \u201cCompleting an item and checking it off of the list can create a sense of accomplishment,\u201d says Meister.<\/p>\n<p>While studying taking breaks is always a good idea, agrees Meister. \u201cThe breaks have to be quality breaks. Go take a walk, or hang out with friends, but don\u2019t use that break watching Netflix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking care of yourself during final is very important. Making sure you\u2019re eating enough of \u2018good for you\u2019 foods and getting enough rest can help take the stress levels down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really try to encourage people to see it as one day, project, test at a time. Don\u2019t focus on the long list,\u201d says Meister. To visit with Meister please make an appointment at my.morningside.edu under campus office tab, within student health and counseling, click book now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(12.6.16) By Alyssa Nehring&#8211;Coming back from Thanksgiving break and jumping right into finals week can be stressful for students. Finals give students a lot to worry about, including passing classes, GPA, being eligible for the next semester of athletics, and even graduation. The levels of stress quickly rise throughout the pressure of finals week. Bobbi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8187,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions\/8187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}