{"id":32477,"date":"2017-10-26T14:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=32477"},"modified":"2017-10-26T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T22:52:07","slug":"dealing-with-stressful-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2017\/10\/26\/dealing-with-stressful-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with stressful weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\"University<\/a>\r\n\r\nLast week was one of those weeks \u2013 three exams and two midterms. And I was sick. You can imagine the stress. I like to look back and reflect on particularly stressful weeks mainly because it\u2019s interesting how despite how much we complain, we almost always pull through. And because during these times it\u2019s not easy set 2 hours aside for yoga or relaxing with a friend, I find it\u2019s the little things in the day that really do the job.\r\n\r\nOne of my previous posts spoke about creating a sense of accountability and sense of belonging<\/a> in class to enhance your course experience, and last week I saw the results of exactly that. Like before my cognitive development midterm when I was nervous and sleep deprived because I had been coughing almost all night and the professor gave me a reassuring smile and told me I could take the midterm later if I was feeling too unwell. Or when I couldn\u2019t make it to my creative writing course because I was too sick and my prof replied\u00a0 Or when I couldn\u2019t make it to any of my TA\u2019s office hours and she called me to her workplace so we could discuss an assignment. Everyone has those weeks. And professors\u2019 and tutorial assistant\u2019s will understand that regardless of what kind of student you are. But think about it \u2013 if you\u2019ve been putting things off all semester because you\u2019re okay with last minute studying, you\u2019re counting on that one time period. That one time period that could go wrong. That one time period you might not be well. That one time period something outside your control could happen. And I know it\u2019s just easier to assume and plan things in a way where we\u2019re always capable of finishing the work and pulling the all nighters --- but what if we\u2019re not? Well things just spiral out of control then because you haven\u2019t been working consistently, you\u2019ve been avoiding office hours, your professors\u2019 and TA\u2019s don\u2019t really know who you are and you can\u2019t really get anything done right now because you\u2019re sick \u2013 it\u2019s a mess!\r\n\r\nBut what if you had worked consistently the weeks before? What if you had gone out of your way to ask questions? What if you had gone to one or two of those office hours? Well then your professors\u2019 and tutorial assistants will understand better<\/em>. If they know you\u2019re a student who works consistently they\u2019ll respect that you need some time off to get that rest and that your performance might not be so great that week. My creative writing professor really doesn\u2019t like it when his students miss class so he could have sounded disappointed but he knew that I had consistently shown him work during the classes before and so he could tell me not to worry about it at all and take time off to rest and recover. He didn\u2019t even require a doctor\u2019s note. But if I was the kind to skip every other class and miss deadlines, he\u2019d probably doubt my last minute \u201cI\u2019m feeling too unwell for class today\u201d email.\r\n\r\nAll I\u2019m saying is \u2013 we all have those weeks where some random element just throws all our plans off. And it\u2019s okay to have those weeks, we can\u2019t change them. But we can change how we prepare for\u00a0 them and having a good bond with your faculty is definitely a step in the right \u00a0direction.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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