“Rest” and Relaxation? Not So Fast …
OK, there’s nothing wrong with rest and relaxation. But as you probably know, physical activity has also been linked to relaxation — or at least...
Coping Strategies 101
COPING STRATEGIES 101 It’s likely that if you’re reading this, you are feeling a range of emotions about the presidential election results and possibl...
Election Fatigue
Here’s something that’s sort of hard to wrap your mind around: It has been 590 days since the first candidate for president, Ted Cruz, announced his r...
Sophomore Slump to Second-Year Surge
It’s Thursday, so let’s do a throwback to August 2013. I had just moved back to Durham after a summer at home with my parents. I was living in Peterso...
Homesickness vs. No Homesickness for UNH Students
I do not get homesick. I remember thinking during the first semester of my freshman year that I must be doing something wrong because you’re supposed ...
Read This Blog on Procrastination Now! Or, Like, Sometime Soon!
So, College Student Nearing Finals. How’d studying go today? What’s that? You barely studied at all? You fell down a YouTube rabbit hole, and then you...
Expressive Writing: What is it? And what are the gains?
In our years as undergraduate students here at UNH, we are academically challenged, but also emotionally, mentally, and spiritually challenged. We hav...
How to Survive Winter Break
We have seen many memes relating to our struggles, despairs, stress, and concerns during finals week. What feels like an endless amount of work in the...
Encountering Stress and Shaking it Off
Monica Arenella '18 talks about encountering stress during your first year at UNH and shaking it off.
Getting Through Finals With Ease
We did it! We made it through another semester at UNH. You can count the days until finals begin on one hand… which is terrifying in its own way...
Paws and Relax
Everyone Needs a Little Puppy Love As the semester comes to a close, I know that a majority of us can’t wait to go home and sit on the couch and do ab...
UNH Frazzle Free Finals
Are You Stressed? Instead of crying to your mom on the phone at 2 a.m. in the library, never fear, UNH has a few stress-busters to sooth your anxietie...
The Word That Must Not Be Named: FINALS
IT APPROACHES…JAWS theme music plays in the background…du nuh nuh nuh…du nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh…..it attacks! Final season has claimed its first vict...
Stress Ball = Stress Less
Stressed Out? Anybody remember being in elementary school and making stress balls out of a balloon and flour? Well it turns out that those little ball...
A Journey to Finding a Proper Sleep Schedule
What’s the Best Sleep Schedule? I have a confession to make: I am a morning person. So yes, that means a 10 p.m. bedtime and 6 a.m. alarm. Comin...
A Wildcat’s Guide to Dealing with Stress
Stressed? After what seemed to be a month filled with essays and midterm exams, I am finally starting to feel a little bit of relief. However, I reali...
Back In the Swing of Things
Welcome back Wildcats to another exciting semester here at the University of New Hampshire! Now that the holidays are over, it’s time to get back to t...
Stress Less During Finals Week!
As I write this, there are 7 days, or 168 hours/10,080 minutes/604,800 seconds until finals week begins. And even though 604,800 seconds seems like a ...
It’s The Final Countdown: Don’t Stress the End of Semester
Has anyone else noticed how quickly this semester seems to have flown by? It feels like just last week we were all moving and sitting in our floor lou...
Students Try To Stay Stress Free
I’m not sure if it’s the fact that I’ll be graduating this year or if I really do have more work than I’ve had in the past, but for some reason I have...