Stress Diagram by Jin

In this modern society, a number of people have suffered from painful diseases or illnesses caused by stress. "Stress" is one of the mental pain or injury related to our psychological tiredness. For today's tech assignment, I am supposed to talk about stress management. Among three different choices, I chose "Stress Diagram". I used this strategy for ENL 207 and CHI 101, because these two classes have given me most a lot of stress among all the courses that I am taking now. Today I would like to introduce one of the most useful skills for any students who received lots of stress and teach how to deal with it.

Firstly! I will explain how to use this skill plus what kinds of steps people should follow. First of all, this strategy are able to help people have some time to check themselves to know about their priority. By knowing about theirs, they would notice that higher priority causes more stress. Next step is practically using "Stress Diagram"; list the sources of stress that you have suffered from. It does not really matter how many sources you list. Then you should divide the pie chart that you already draw on the piece of paper into the number of sections as many as the number of sources. Each section of the pie chart which has individually different portion represents the amount of stress in your life.

ENL 207! This class is one of the most stressful courses in my life because as this is a language teaching-class, I have had quite tough time to do essay, exam or even exceptional stuff. Honestly, I am the person who is like I am trying to do not think about something even though I got too much stress. Essay? Exam? Being punctual? Who can tell those are easy to do. What I have done for this course by using this skill was firstly listing the sources of stress. I put essay, exam, being punctual and grammar in this order, and then draw a middle size of circle. On the next step, I divided a circle into four different sections which represent the amount of stress depending on the size of each section. For instance, the most stressful one in ENL 207 is writing an essay, so I set it up at the biggest section. (The full circle has total 10 and essay takes 4 out of 10.)

By having done this strategy, I had a chance to think about which things have given me stress. I felt fresh. Of course, after I figure out the causes, I should have solved these problems. Personally, I strongly suggest this strategy to many students who have stressed out.

Next course in which I used "Stress Diagram" was CHI 101. CHI 101 has lots of exam, quiz (almost everyday), homework (everyday), or even new words so that this course also has given me lots of stress. This is why I chose this course for stress management assignment. What I had done for this course was basically same as what I had done for ENL 207. First of all, I listed the courses of stress; exam, quiz, homework, absence, and pronounciation. Again I charged different number for each section that also represents different amount of stress. I draw a circle and divided into 5 different sections to put the sections into each division.

I was also able to easily see which things had given me what kinds of stress and how much I suffered from. I believe that being noticed by myself is the most important step which I MUST do. Realizing the causes of stress will allow me to self-check and think about the solution too.

Since lots of students have received stress from the school work or specific courses, we should know what kinds of stuff especially give us stress and pressure. By using this strategy, the beginning-step of releasing stress has been succeeded almost half way which is knowing the causes. Of course, I thought of the solutions too. Among them, I strongly prefer to use "Chunk". For example, when I have a huge exam such as final exam, I can chunk the work, so I can study the way earlier a little by a little. I believe that it will definitely help me study and avoid staying whole night on the last minute call. Although there are a number of good-quality methods of solving stress-issues, "Stress Diagram" has positively influenced me a lot. Use it!