Plans and ideas

1) What are you most stressed-out with at the moment? Why? Is your body re-acting to this stress? Devise a plan to deal with it. (Who do you turn to when you are stressed?)

There is a lot that stresses me out right now. I have a lot going on with my life, my children miss me terribly, school is really getting to me, work is getting harder to deal with because it takes away from my time with my children (but the plus side is I get lots of studying done). Let's see what topic do I want to hit?

My body really is reacting to the stress in a bad way. I wake up in the mornings (after getting very little sleep) and instantly feel sick. If I eat before I leave the house, I fall asleep on my way to class. So that is not an option. My class schedule is so messed up that I don't eat the way I should. Living off of gatorade, pop, and chips is not a very good idea.

My plan is to deal with the semester and catch up on my sleep when it's over. That's really all I can do. As for talking to someone, I really don't have anyone that I can. Every time I try, it either upsets the other person and htey stop talking to me or it makes our relationship very strained. So instead of talking I write my feelings down on my computer. Sometimes I print them out and send them to people, but a lot of times it's just my way of venting.

2) READ the following excerpts from last year's UN100 on how they approach studying and retention of information from textbooks. These are extremely successful and their grades are reflecting it. If you haven't cracked your Anatomy textbook especially, you are doing yourself a great disservice!

I really like what they had to say and I will try to use a few of those ideas in my studying.