They can provide a great means to talk about the stresses of
university and also to provide really fun distractions.
>> I think it's really important when you're studying at uni that you work out,
pick some good strategies to help you de-stress.
I mean obviously, it's easy to get stressed with the workload and
you get a lot of essays and assignments and exams to do.
But if you can find a way to kind of overcome that,
stay a bit calm and happy throughout it, you do a lot better work.
And it will also be a lot healthier and happy as a person.
So I find if you can just work out things that make you really happy or
help you to calm down and then stick to those.
And so that you can rely on them any times that you get a bit stressed.
You can go to that, whether it's reading a certain book or
listening to certain music.
Or even just having a long night sleep to kind of clear your head and
calm down a bit.
I find it really helps me if I can spare a few hours to do some baking,
I just get them to the kitchen and I can make a cake.
That's really useful because it's something completely different from what
I'm studying at uni.
And so it gives me a chance to completely clear my head and I'm not able to think
about uni all because I'm so focused on making sure that cake is perfect.
So it's a really good chance to kind of reset the body and then afterwards you're
refreshed and you can get back into doing that work at a much higher quality.
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>> Letting things go can be one of the hardest things that you learn at
university.
I think there's a constant pressure to succeed and always achieve the best.
But sometimes you just might not get there and that's okay.
So that's a really important lesson I learned and
also failure is actually probably the best way to let things go.
So I had a personal experience where I had misread some of my
assessment criteria and actually failed my mid-semester assessment.
And I spoke to my lecturer and thankfully they were really supportive.
I, for the first time start putting an insane
amount of pressure on myself which I had been doing prior to that assessment.
And probably actually led me to misreading the assessment criteria in
the first place.
And when I spoke to my lecturer seeking some advice about what happened.
The best thing that she said to me was just let this assessment go and
try your best for the next one.