Reading Reaction Journal #2

from:Winnie

Reference

Lewin, T. (2011, January 26). Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshmen. The New York Times. Retrieved January 27, 2011, from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/education/27colleges.html

Summary

According to this article, men think the emotion health is more important than women. Students’ stress is from the loan, the fact that they can’t find an ideal job, and the economy. Young students think they have to get a higher degree in order to make their wages above the basic wages. Because of the worse economy, the scholarship has become a reason that students choose their college. The stress is not only affecting college students, it’s also affecting the high school student. Different genders have different feelings about stress. In having a good mood, the percentage of women is lower than that of men. Women reduce the stress by talking. Men reduce their stress by exercising more.

Reaction

Our topic for our survey is Ways of Reducing Stress; in this article I got some information. Women will talk about what they feel about making stress easier. I agree with that, because in our culture, we think men should be stronger in any section. They should be brave. For example, we women cry because being condemned for falsehoods is natural, but if men cry in the crowd, we will think he is not brave enough. Therefore men will hide their deeply thinking and be trained to bear more bad things. For the same reason, men will not easily tell people about their stress except his close friend.
Students in different grades have different stress. Basically we have to finish our homework, think about the exam and worry about the relationship with classmates. For freshmen or pre-freshmen, they have to worry about if they can catch up with the courses. In senior year we have to worry about the career that we will have; we have to prepare our autobiography and get ready for an interview for the job. Almost every moment we have stress except the moment that we are thinking about nothing. That is really relaxing.
As I know, Americans are more independent, so their own economy might be one of the stresses in their lives, so it can be proven in our survey that is the economy street he a main part of the stress?