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Still, Harvard students should make the trip down to the New Haven. Every year, students declare they will attend the game, but change their mind at the last minute, pressured by the stress of classes and a curious suspicion that they won’t have fun. But the tailgate and Game are always fun, even if Yale is hosting them. It only happens once a year, and it is certainly worth taking time out from studying to support a fun college rivalry. And for those freshmen worried that they might find themselves wandering aimlessly the skid row that...
...WORRY, GET ANGRY! Sometimes it pays to get mad. In a small study published in Biological Psychiatry, subjects who made angry facial expressions in stressful situations--like having to count quickly back from 6,233 by 13--had smaller blood-pressure spikes and lower levels of stress hormones than those who responded with expressions of fear...
...estimates of numbers of students involved in dance in one way or another can run as high as 10 to 20 percent.“Dance is a lifelong enjoyment,” Drew says. “It’s a good source of exercise, a stress reducer, and I know a lot of other companies are culturally based so there’s a sense of community”.Now that community may be even better fostered and developed as the Dance Program and all its affiliates embark on their new, and hopefully even more successful, life...
Despite the unbelievable stress, Fingleton saw swimming as a path to a happier life. He says he thought that success at swimming could perhaps win his father’s affection and provide a path away from the wharves...
...short-term mass-memorization. The pain generated by graduate school preparation stands to be lessened considerably by changes in the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) set to take effect in a year’s time. And we wholly endorse anything that minimizes a Harvard student’s stress level. The GRE, an examination required for admission to nearly every reputable graduate program, has long been little more than a rearranged SAT with more sophisticated vocabulary and reading passages. But with what the Educational Testing Service (ETS) calls the most significant overhaul in the GRE’s 55-year...