Pre-college, the word stress didn't mean much to me nor it existed in my life. It was something that I hadn't dealt with before because homework and tests weren't much of a concern to me back then since most of them I could pass with my eyes closed.
However, after a semester in college, I can officially say that stress is something that I'm well-aware of and very experienced in dealing with the concept of it. In the first semester, I joined football and it was not too long after that I realized that the teachers at Gallaudet didn't really give any crap if I joined a sport or not, their assignments still had to be completed on time with no excuses. That, in effect, added to my stress which pretty much didn't exist before... the deadlines really got to my head a little bit because even during the game I kept on reminding myself that I had to do those assignments after the game.
After a while, I began to make adjustments in order to lessen my stress. I began to do my homework assignments on the road on my laptop so that I could finish them before arriving to another team's state. With that adjustment, life began to get easier and stress began to go away.
The stress factor doubled in size when the homecoming week/end came because so much fun was there to be had and homework remained. Once again, the teachers didn't care much about the week, only about their assignments being done on time. There, I blew some assignments but I learned that the fun can wait and assignments can't, with that, finishing the assignments first will eliminate the stress part and then the fun part will only become more fun with no stress.
Lesson learned: eliminate stress first before anything else.
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