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Issue date: 10/16/08 Section: Entertainment

These days, Utica College students are experiencing the thing we like to call stress. What is stress? According to Tammy Coder Mikinski, a licensed psychologist, stress is "anything that takes a psychological or physical toll on you. It's not necessarily a bad thing."

Everyone experiences stress but those who are in college seem to have just a bit more than the average person. With midterms now in progress, UC students are even more stressed than usual. College students, however, can avoid some stress. Most of Utica College's students have a lot on their plates. They have classes, work, in some cases, involvement in clubs or organizations on campus, homework, and of course, a social life.

The University of South Florida's Counseling Center for Human Development has some strategies to help deal with stress.
- Manage your time
- Make a schedule if you have to
- Eat well
- Exercise
- Set up priorities (yes, homework might just come before that party)
- Say "no" sometimes; don't take on too much
- Take special care when creating your schedule.

Mikinski also mentions that if you surround yourself with positive people you have a better chance of overcoming stress and "you need to find time for yourself."

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