Reading Reaction Journal #3

Haohui Lu (Hugo)
Reading Reaction Journal #3
Reference
Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times (Jan, 27, 2011). More college freshmen feeling overwhelmed, survey finds. Retrieved Feb, 8th, 2011,
From latimes.com/health/la-me-college-freshmen-20110127,01593537.story

Summary
In this article, the author described a survey report about the college students’ stress. Many students have lots of stress when they have just been in the college, and this report also says the freshmen who have stress were more than their predecessors. Their stress often come from the emotional controlling and financial stress, also men have stronger emotional than the women, which are described by the report. And the students also think the recession always affect their choice of college, because the families’ financial problems and scholarships give them a lot of stress. About the students how to reduce the stress, some male would choose to watch TV and play games, and some female may choose to help with chores at home, and both of them also would choose the positive side to take part in the clubs and community service to reduce their stress and let themselves have more college experience.

Reaction
In this article, I was very interested in reading about the report describe where is the college students’ stress come from, and which is the positive ways to reduce the stress about the students. And I also agree John H. Pryor says, “When the students go into the college, they would feel overwhelmed and have lower emotional reserves to deal with their stress.” In my opinion, the reason of the freshmen has a lot of stress, base on two things, first before they go into the college, they didn’t have enough prepare, they didn’t know how is the college’s study, and what is the different between the college study and the high school study; second when they have stress, they don’t know how to solve the problems, and how to reduce their stress. So the best way to help the freshmen due with their stress is giving them some college studies’ experiment before they go into the college, and after they understand, they would know how to manage their stress.