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Senior year is not as easy as it seems
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During the first semester, many seniors are buried under the pressure of college applications or their plans after high school, while also facing the stresses of their extracurriculars. In my case, and many others, we also have to keep our grades as perfect as they can be for the handful of elite colleges that…
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Modern Escapism
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Generation Z (born from 1997-2012) may not be facing the struggles that past generations have, but that does not mean that school is any less stressful for these students. According to the American Psychological Association, 45 percent of all teens said they were stressed by school. Data collected from the American Psychological Association for…
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Music is the key to reducing stress in schools
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If music can help calm patients during surgery, imagine what it could do for the minds of high school students? Students constantly grapple with stress. A study from the American Psychological Association found that 27 percent of students reported experiencing extreme stress during the school year, 40 percent felt irritable and 36 percent reported…
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Put health before grades: managing the stress of finals
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Drowning in piles of review study guides and trying to look up Quizlets with all the answers: This is what the week before finals looks like. As finals start approaching, the stress a student endures begins to magnify. Everything from the beginning of the year, that you promised yourself you’d review, is a complete…
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Learning to count blessings through the stressing
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I wake up to my blaring alarm and race to school. I carry my jam-packed, 34.2 lb backpack from class to class where I sit for hours and aggressively take notes and stress about whatever test, quiz or assignment I have due. I finish my school day with a few hours of dance team…
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Finding peace of mind
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High school life is fast-paced: filled with schoolwork, social media, volunteering, friends, jobs, and more. With so much simultaneously going on, many high schoolers struggle with mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety. Kelly Welch, the assistant principal of athletics, recognizes the difficulty students have in maintaining a balance. “I think that over…