Word: burnout
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...Burnout cases are less prevalent in the spring semester according to Ducey...
...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 fall semester feels dangerously out of control...
...Perhaps the burnout casualties of the fall semester remove a significant proportion of potential burnout victims from the spring semester," he writes. "Yet the rhythms of the spring are similar to those of the fall: sticking one's head in the sand early leads to the disaster of the experience of burnout later in the semester...
...Ducey writes that the single most important method of preventing burnout is self-awareness...
...Failure in the process of self-definition--which is central to the college experience--makes burnout inevitable and indicates that the process has failed...