Student Stress Is it worth it

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Student Stress - Is it worth it?
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Student Stress

• Why are you going to college?
• Why a liberal arts degree?
• What are employers looking for?
• Why do people drop out of college?
• Traditional vs. non-traditional students

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Stressors Facing Younger College Students

• Lifestyle change
• Achieving emotional independence from family
• Choosing and preparing for a career
• Preparing for emotional commitment and family
  life
• Developing an ethical system
• Grades
• Many students are more concerned about grades
  rather than about what they are learning
• Course overload
• Taking on too many classes can lead to illness,
  hostile emotions, not enough time for friends,
  learning less, and ultimately poor grades

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Stressors Facing Younger College Students (cont.)

• Finances
• Tuition and books, living expenses, credit cards
• Giving up or changing friendships
• New intimate relationships (love) (p. 335)
• Erotic love-passionate, all-enveloping, heart
  racing.
• Ludic love-playful, flirtatious, no long
  commitment.
• Storgic love-calm, companionate, long commitment.
• Manic love-combination of erotic and ludic, but
  has jealousy and irrational joy, no long
  commitment.
• Sex

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Average Income
1997 University of Michigan Study

• Mail Carrier 35,369
• Railroad Worker 41,415
• Police Officer 38,301
• Plumber 34,531

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Average Household Income
1997 University of Michigan Study

• High School Diploma 30,071
• Bachelor Degree 52,370
• Professional Degree 78,002

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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter
of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for.
It is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryant
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The purpose of education is to take an empty
mind and replace it with an open one.
Malcom
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Student Debt

• Credit card companies pay 55,000 to 100,000 per
  year to market their services on college
  campuses.
• Poor credit reports can affect people for years
• Higher interest rates on loans
• Information on inactive accounts is available for
  seven years
• Bankruptcies stay listed for 10 years

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Did You Know?

• In 2003-2004, average cost of tuition and fees at
  a four-year private college was 19,710 and
  4,694 at a four-year public college
• In 1999-2000, 64 of students graduated with a
  student-loan debt
• The number of seniors who graduated with more
  than 20,000 in debt increased from 5 in
  1992-1993 to 33 in 1999-2000

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Student Stress
Lifestyle

• 430 million gallons of liquor consumed on college
  campuses
• Enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool on
  every campus
• Why is a college degree valuable?
• It take perseverance to get
• Things of value are difficult to attain

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A mind stretched from its original thought never
returns to its original shape.
Holmes
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The Older College Student

• More than 40 of college students are over age 25
• They experience same stressors as younger college
  students
• They also experience unique stressors in areas
  of
• Career and school
• Family and school
• Self-doubt

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The Minority College Student

• Stressors include
• Racism
• Language
• Cultural values
• Pressure to perform