how do you deal with exam stress?
 

aside from actually studying to lessen exam anxiety the stress is starting to eat me up a little.

how do you constructively deal with this type of stress?..

go out with friends

get some fresh air

run around in a park a little bit

You either know the material or you don't. I never worry about it, unless they are finals then I am freaking out.

Generally I just listen to music, and sleep.

Coffee (and lots of it. This probably won't work for you, as I drink coffee before bed. It's a bad habit.)
Sitting outside and reading something other than course work
Going for walks at night with my headphones on

get hammered after you exams are finished, in time honoured tradition

i did that, i was stoned too though, then i fell off my friends trampoline. It hurt a lot the next day. :(

By not being in school.

one way: i don't give a shit about the exam. i focus on what i'm going to do after-- like getting plastered, as t&b suggested.

i don't mean don't study-- study, but just give it a "fuckit" attitude once you're there. always has worked for me-- i kick ass at exams even when i know little of the subject because i "stay loose" and my brain doesn't freeze due to nerves.

and try to turn the anxiety into "excitement"-- a little stress makes you sharp, too much stress stupefies you.

Graduate

haha. Right on.

I just don't care about that stuff. In highschool I would just do the damn things and forget about them. If I did worry at all, it'd get too much and I'd get nonchalant about the whole thing anyway.

Put your computer and monitor in the most inconvenient place possible. Thats what i plan to do next week.

check it, I figure

if I study high,
take the test high,
I'll get high scores!




but seriously, make sure you study in the process, it is the best combination for stress relief regarding exams.

exam what? never had that, ever.

don't look at the whole. pretend you are a shark and take tastey bites out of each task and then thrash around in the water.
bonus points for biting off pieces of surf boards, super crown award for taking legs too.

i used to just load up on adderal and not sleep till the exams were over, then take xanax and sleep for a couple days straight.

now that im trying to be healthier i just dont procrastinate. but exams so suck, especially for gened classes that dont have anything to do with that you want to have a career in. sometimes i feel like im going to college just to get my degree to satisfy my parents and not get cut off, if i had it my way id just start seriously playin wit my band. but no rush i guess, im only 20.

JUST KIDDING

I think you greatly misunderstand my concept of "high" here, I dont mean to judge, but that all sounds a little scary just for an exam. I agree with the suggestion above, the best way is to graduate, which after five years, I will be going in December. Take that America, a shiggity shat legit Rastaman, well eductated and degree-holding.

Only twenty. Man, I just turned twenty and feel extremely depressed. I just don't want to get old.

I feel the same way about college. Sometimes I think the stress is just too much for me, so I can't really give any advice on how ot deal with that either. Maybe I should major in something more useful than English.