Breeze through finals

Faculty advice, relaxation events help you rock it

The sun is out, the trees are blooming, people are talking about their summer plans... you are thisclose to the semester's end. You just have to get through finals.
And while important tests can bring about stress, students might take some measure of comfort in knowing that their professors were once students themselves. So last semester we asked a few of our faculty to offer advice about dealing with finals. In the video above they share their tips.

There are several de-stressing activities happening around campus too. From pet therapy to coloring to meditation, here are links to some events to check out:

  • May 4, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: De-Stress Fest: Yoga, games, free chair massages, and play time with huskies dogs (outside); Pick Museum of Anthropology
  • May 9, 4-7 p.m. Don't Stress the Test: Event for honors students includes food and games, all with a beach theme at the Campus Life Building
  • May 9, 6 p.m.: De-Stress Fest: Chair massages, therapy dogs, coloring, food for NIU's first-generation students, Stevenson North
  • May 9-13: Coloring to Calm, first floor of the Founders Memorial Library during library hours 7:30 a.m. to midnight.
  • May 10 & 11: Newfoundlands Gladus and Shurlee will be in the Founders Memorial Library, 3-5 p.m. Tuesday and 6-7:30 Wednesday.

 

 

 

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1 Comment

  1. Tyrone Pearson says:
    December 1, 2015 at 7:33 pm

    This seems like crunch time, but it is a beginning of knowing who will carry the torch the farthest and who really cares. In ten years, you will be measured by your focus at game day, and not what is on your transcript. You will learn alot about your peers by what they will and won’t do. Do your best! It matters and will help you set your friend in your early thirties by who went the extra mile and who did not. In my days the top 15% started with 8 to 17K more a year. NIU 1999

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