Mid-Semester Campus Life - Happiness is a choice

Hello friends! I hope that you are enjoying fall weather whether it is rainy, cloudy, or sunny day. Please stay positive and active during depressing rainy season and stressful school by participating in campus events, hanging out with your friends, and having time for yourself.

I am going to share with you how I stayed positive during nursing school, specifically during and after Mid-term. 

1. Global Campus Connection game night & Around the World preparation

Planning an event can be stressful with all the preparation, and advertising, and concerns about if there is anybody coming to my event. However, I believe that short-term stress can serve as a motivation for learning. It helps me to form more effective time management strategy, and helps me to expand my consideration while planning events, and it helps me to improve and modify my stress coping mechanisms. Instead of perceiving event planning as a job obligation, I tend to consider it a time to have fun.

During one-hour Game night, we played Pictionary and paper telephone. We had so much guessing what other people have drawn. As the game proceeded, I also noticed that students with different background would have different perspectives or interpretations of a specific word or phase.

( * Global Campus Connection is an ISS program that provides platform for mutual learning experience and cultural exchange between international students and current students. ) 

 

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We are busy preparing for Around the World!  If you are hosting a table, it is time to start thinking about the materials you need. A reminder for Around the World:  Wednesday, Nov 15th

I had some fun with the photobooth props --->

2.  Halloween entertainment-- Stay positive by laughing

 

 3. Acknowledging your stress, and appreciating things around you.

When people tell me, “Camille, you shouldn’t be stressing too much! It is really bad for you.”  I know I should reduce my stress but how do I not stress out when there are so many assignments and exams coming at me? Then I realize that it is impossible to reduce stress but what I can do is to increase my positivity while dealing with stress.

• Same Amount of Stress with Increase level of positivity and happiness

• Same amount of stress is due to unchanged course load despite your stress level

• How do I increase my positivity and happiness?

• Try to appreciate things around me by focusing on positive aspect of life.

• Example of things that I appreciate:

• My mom and sister care so much about me, and we talk every night
• I have two awesome roommates, and we support each other
• Beautiful fall weather
• more……..

~Camille