College Stress

            There’s no doubt that College students are under a great amount of pressure, which again causes a lot of hardship and of course more stress. There is vast expectancy from our parents to do well in class while balancing work and family. The rise of college tuition is also another concern; in addition to that, many of the students are buried with debt. Plus with the slow economy, it is making it easier said than done to find jobs after graduation. Much like the rest of the world, it continues to get more and more competitive. Ughhhh!!! One thing after another; why is life so complicated? I’ve been away from school about eight years now and recently got back into it; wow I thought being deployed overseas was difficult.

            College life can be very stressful and very harmful when stress is excessive in ones life. By far, from what I have read and researched, depression and anxiety are the most prevalent problems students confront. The second leading cause of death among college students is suicide. The number one killer is accidents, which include accidental overdoses and drinking and driving deaths, many of which might be linked to depression and anxiety. I will refer back to the environment we are in and where ever you look stress stares you right in the face. Its like getting old, no matter what you do its inevitable.

            College life…..sometimes  parents, faculty and other influencers tend to idealize their college experience and remember it as one big party and good times. While they were in college, had very little to worry about or have any responsibilities. To the students presently attending college, however, the process is often discouraging and stressful. The struggle to get good grades, the demand to perform, relationships, fear of AIDS, career choice and many other aspects of the college environment cause stress. Also stress is often caused by general unhappiness and a sense of aimlessness of lack of purpose. People sometimes wind up making choices and living life styles that is expected of them but don’t really fit them. A student may be studying Law because his or her parents studied law but in all realty he wants to be a photographer. That’s only the beginning, what about when you graduate and have to face the real world…

Death by Stress…...Slowly but Surely

What am I thinking about? Rent? Wow, were is all my money going? I feel a lump; I know cancer when I feel it. What is she up too? Why does she not like me? Why is he not answering my phone calls? I just want to end my life so I don’t have to suffer. STRESS, it is everyone’s bottomless pit. Stress, harassing our minds and tormenting our sleepless nights. Once, its purpose was to help us survive. Most of us have come to think that stress is bad for us, but is part of our fundamental survival system. Back in our Stone Age days where acute stress happens on a regular basis, it kept us more alert, more attuned to the environment and to what actually is a threat or not a threat. Now that our environment has changed, the onslaught of the modern world can stress us to the point of death.

Stress- a state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life, work, etc. It can also be define as something that causes strong feelings of worry or anxiety and physical force or pressure. May it be short-term or chronic stress, we all will encounter it one way or another. Repeated short-term stress is experienced during most day-to-day living situations. When you are endlessly beating deadlines or running errands. Chronic stress is the response to emotional pressure suffered for a prolonged period, which an individual perceives he or she has no control. When you have poor diet, inadequate sleep, lack of exercise, and mismanagement of mental and emotional stress.

Why do we live in such a stressful world? In a world were people are constantly building or making things to make life easier, why does stress still engulf people’s lives. In my opinion oneself creates stress. Lets go back to the Stone age, were we had to worry about a few things like hunting, gathering food or surviving mother nature. In the modern world we are not stressed on hunting or gathering food, we are stressed by each other, taxes, traffic, school, work, and maybe something as small as washing the dishes. Stress is created by social and psychological pandemonium invented by our own species.  

Whats the next step in Human Evolution???

What is the next step in Human Evolution?  How long before we find out? Will humans survive long enough to know? Say we have the polar ice caps begin to melt and the sea level began to rise hundreds of meters, covering every continent and turning Earth into a water planet.The human race is unfortunately scattered across the ocean in individual, isolated communities consisting of man made islands and sea vessels. Will we adapt to the tremendous change or will the human race get eliminated by mother nature. Or will we be able to grow gills and webbed feet? Humans becoming mutants with webbed feet and gills, an evolutionary step in some of the humans to accommodate the changes in climate. We'll never know till it happens but it makes you think what we are capable of. 

But lets talk about something that might be happening right now, our ability to fight diseases. Technology has played a big roll in our fight against diseases, such as the creation of medication. In todays age, as humans become more and more dependent upon medication for survival, we can expect human immune system to slowly weaken. Is it safe to say that medication might not be as good as it is intended to be? Well my opinion on medication is, it is good and bad for society. Medication as well as other substances can be abuse and used beyond prescribed. Also some medications may cure some illnesses but create new ones. In like a lot of medication Ads they tell you how great it is but towards the end list a bunch of side effects that me be worse than what you already have. Why would our body need a powerful immune system if all diseases are tackled by medication? 

Research Topics

My first choice that i would like to research is on the Effects of Technology has on the world. Whether it be bad or good. How technology has evolved throughout the years and as well has the positive/negative ways it is being used. My other was the evolution of humans. Over the years we have adapted to our surroundings. What will our next big change be?

Notes to my future husband: A Bitch's Guide to our happily ever after

This book was given to me during Christmas by my girlfriend and it is pretty much a handbook/guidebook on how to keep her happy. This book is very interesting and has a lot of points that I can agree or meet her half way on. There were three things that stood out to me. First was girls/guys night out; girls night out, for the record, we talk about you a lot less than you think, and we get hit on a lot more than you think. Guy's night out, have fun. feel free to drunk dial me, and always know: I've got bail money on standby. The first thing i think about when my girl goes out is guys hitting on her. I know t happens but i know i can trust her. If there no trust, its not going to be a good relationship. When i go out i get wasted but i know i not do anything stupid. The second is Counseling is for pussies, let's go rob a bank. Every relationship has its ups and downs. We need to figure it ourselves or find that spark to get back to were we were. I don't need to pay someone to tell me we have problems. Last but not least Youth, let's squeeze every last drop of excitement out of our youth, but let's not chase after it. I believe that we should live every day as if it was our last. I would like to do everything with my future wife before we get old and in a wheel chair. Knowing that we did what we wanted to do in life make me less scared on dying. Its inevitable so live, laugh, and love.

One Child

Finally Torey had met Sheila's Father, big man over six feet tall, heavy set with a huge belly that slopped over his belt, only one tooth on the bottom and very evil smelling breath. He had nothing good to say about Sheila. He did not even want to claim her, he said "She ain't really my child, that bitch of a woman who's her mother, that's her bastard." He kept going on and on how she disliked sheila and her ways. How he had never met a child like her, one who causes trouble all the time. I feel really bad for Sheila, she really has nobody in her life to give her guidance or to show her whats right or wrong. I kinda expected her father to be that way just by how she was in the book.  IT seemed no one can control because no one ever did. She was abandoned and had to fend for herself so she never really trusted anybody. Now that she has Torey, she has someone to look up to and learn from. Sheila continues to improve as well as getting along with others in class. Im hoping as I read further that her life would get better and that she has someone who would actually take care of her.

The Glass Castle

The book starts off about this girl and upbringing. She was boiling some hotdogs in the late morning in her trailers small kitchen. She was still wearing her pink ballerina dress that stuck out like a tutu, which she was spinning around in front of the mirror earlier thinking she looked like a ballerina. At this time she was about three, a little young for cooking but her mom thought she was mature enough to handle cooking. Next thing you know her dress caught on fire and was rushed to the hospital. She had a few good burns but nothing she couldn't handle. She enjoyed being in the hospital, because everyone was so nice and she never had to worry about running out of stuff like food or ice cream. She also had her first experience with chewing gum which she was stunned by the sharp sweetness. Her parents were not your typical parents, lets just say they had interesting ways of dealing with life in general. She had two other siblings Lori and Brian, i felt that was in the same boat as her just going with whatever their parents wanted them to do. They would visit her all the time, her mother didn't like that she chewed gum because it was a disgusting low class habit, her dad almost got into a fight with the doctor because didn't like the fact that she had bandages on her burns because he said burns need to breathe. A few days later her dad came in and snatched her from the hospital without consulting the doctor. Once she had got home the first thing she did was cook more hotdogs which is weird because of what happened, but she seemed fascinated with fire. She would steal her dads matches and burn them behind the trailer. Everything was back to normal until one day her dad came in the middle of the night hollering that they need to pack up because they are hitting the road. I feel like this book is going to be about her interesting adventures with her parents and I'm very interesting about there first adventure.