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Vargas says she has realized all-nighters are not worth the drowsiness and always gets her eight hours of sleep.
He adds that some pressure is stimulating, but when they face too much, students sometimes just give up. Some students' tendency to just sleep or drop out of activities when they are burned out is symptomatic of another cause of burnout: long-term inability to adapt to rising challenges.
"Most students begin the fall semester with a sense of hope and enthusiasm," Ducey adds. "It is around the time of 'hourlies' or midterms that students may begin to experience the uneasy sense that things are going badly wrong."
Winter holidays follow soon after this period, but these festivities are not the time of rest they are billed as.
"By the time of Thanksgiving, when students often face the sometimes less-than-desirable prospect of going home for the holidays, the phenomena of burnout begin to become manifest," Ducey says. "The weeks between Thanksgiving and the winter holidays are often the most critical period for students' recognition that their...