If you're reading this and you're a college student, you are statistically more likely to have better developed time and stress management techniques already than the typical high school student. (Only about 1/3 of all Americans have a bachelor's degree, so if you attain that, it's really a terrific accomplishment!)

For this project, we are going to develop an advice column for SCCC students, focusing on incoming first-year students. A goal would be to get your contributions published in one of the campus student newspapers such as Lighthouse News, Compass News, or Western Student Press as an op-ed/opinion piece (or, if you'd like, you could revise it once more to make it a straight, informative, expository piece).

Given the class readings on time & stress management this week, and given what you already know works for you in your personal experience, what advice can you add to this column to help other students? 

Each of you must share at least three points of advice. It's helpful to include examples. E.g., "get a good night's sleep!" for one of your three points of advice doesn't cut it. How many hours? And on what are you basing this? Do you have source you can cite? Or an anecdote from your own experience about how you used to feel when logging only six hours, but when you made time for 7 1/2 hours each night, you felt better, looked better, and did better in school?

To give you a sense of how much detail, your total contribution (all three points of advice) should be no less than 150 words in length inclusive of the advice itself, your examples and discussion. 

Post your contribution to the time & stress management discussion forum. Basic requirements: 

  1. Three separate points of advice to other college students about time and stress management. 
  2. Minimum discussion of 150 words.