If you're wondering how to eliminate stress from your life, forget it! Stress is a part of life. So, your goal should be to learn how to manage it better. You can learn to control how you think, feel and behave in response to stress. Easy right? Well for most of us it takes a lifetime of practice. 

• Keep things in perspective: When you're stressed out, it can be hard to keep things in perspective. But think about it: what's REALLY the worst thing that can happen if you don't make the grade? Check out this blog entry, created by Cornell's Professor Emeritus, Thomas Gavin (A.K.A. "Dr. Tom") entitled "The stress that university students endure." (October, 2010)

• Let it go. Let it go. Let it go: No matter how bad (or good) things are right now, they will change. Why not learn to laugh and learn from your mistakes? Get creative in your stress management. Whether you're studying to become a poet, engineer, anthropologist, chef, or lawyer, learn to embrace the phrase "this too shall pass." Watch this YouTube clip showing how one group of guys embodied this concept in a Rube Goldberg construction!
  

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