Tribune Media Services Finals are a vicious cycle. You have to study to pass. If you pass, you enroll for another semester. A new semester brings new finals. You have to study to pass.
Finals are a vicious cycle.
With finals week looming like a clock tower, the next few weeks have the potential of becoming stressful. Just ask your blood pressure. William Prescott, associate director at University of California at Los Angeles student psychological services, runs short three-session workshops at the university's stress clinic and said he sees an increase in student stress between midterms and finals. But, given the amount of workload that students face, there's quite a bit of pressure all quarter long. To reduce stress levels, the UCLA stress clinic teaches students different relaxation techniques and how a student internally talks about stress.