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 America’s Freshmen Are Really Stressed OutPosted on Jan 27, 2011
Wedged between past years of standardized testing and fixating on applications and a future of paying off hefty loans with no guarantees of employment, first-year college students around the country are registering higher levels of stress and poorer emotional health, according to a long-standing survey out of UCLA. —KA
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By AnnaCatherine, January 28, 2011 at 11:04 am Link to this comment
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Young people have always been frightened by the idea of “growing up” and assuming responsibilities. But the rewards that came with being an adult got us through. Complaining has become a national past time. The danger in the prevailing attitude is the lowering of expectatons. With all these obstacles including ‘stress’ they are not expected to be achievers. It’s dangerous for a country not to have faith it its young people. We are creating a generation of failures and giving them countless reasons not to succeed. Too many of them are buying into it.
Report thisBy prisnersdilema, January 27, 2011 at 1:15 pm Link to this comment
40 years ago the dollar was worth something, prices were lower, and more people had
Report thissupportive families that were working. Dick Cheny needs a new heart too.
By rico, suave, January 27, 2011 at 11:09 am Link to this comment
“Wedged between past years of standardized testing and fixating on applications and a future of paying off hefty loans with no guarantees of employment,...”
Someone please explain to me how this differs from forty years ago.
Suck it up kids. The world doesn’t owe you a living, despite what your professors tell you.
Report thisBy Mark, January 27, 2011 at 10:05 am Link to this comment
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Stressed!? Like the rest of us you mean? Welcome to the
real world. Nothing that hard work, ample exercise and
a healthy diet won’t cure.
Frankly, I’m tired of hearing how America’s children -
Report thisthe most privileged and pampered on the planet, are
having a hard time adjusting to a looming adulthood
they’ve been encouraged to postpone.