Word: stress
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Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 said that while these concrete recommendations are a positive step towards improved services, the University must also address cultural causes of mental health problems, such as stress and methods of preventing them...
...We’ve been working really hard in practice, and that showed today,” Steve Cohen said. “We stress that every week we have to get better, though, and last year Bucknell came in here and embarrassed us and we’re looking to go down to Pennsylvania this weekend and return the favor...
...economic party like this one has its hangovers, such as BOSS, or burnout stress syndrome, another Valley-like feature now found in Bangalore. When Ranit Bhalla, 25, a software engineer, joined tech giant Wipro four years ago, the work was so intense he often found himself sleeping and even bathing at the office. "For most of us who pushed hard to get ahead, we lived, ate and breathed our jobs," he says. After six months of 16-hour workdays, 3 a.m. dinners and gastric problems, his exhausted body finally gave out. He spent 15 days in a hospital and then...
...help alleviate stress, Wipro and other IT firms have hired dietitians and yoga and meditation teachers. But the outsourcing industry has a 60% rate of employee turnover per year. "I work hard, but this is no life," says Kaushik. Her solution: "I'm going to quit soon." It's a luxury most Indians would never have dreamed of. --By Sara Rajan/New Delhi
...lunch one day in January, five fourth-grade girls merrily bantered in the language of testing. They rattled off their old scores and the percentiles they need to reach next time. "A lot of people feel stress," says Molli Lippelgoes, 9, "but if you just put your mind to it, it's not that hard. If we can do our best, we can put our school up a lot higher...