Receiving your letter of acceptance, visiting campus, shopping for your new bed spread and cool posters to hang on the wall, move-in day, first day of classes, first big paper and test, making new friends, meeting a Big, missing home. First year can be a crazy whirlwind as you make your transition into a new campus. It can be so much fun, but it can also be stressful. After 18 years, we are leaving home on our own to start in a new place with new faces. Whether it’s a 15 minute drive or a 6 hour drive to home, homesickness is one of the many realities of going to college. It is also your first semester of doing some hard work. Studying into the wee hours of the morning for the big test, staying up all night to get your paper finished in time, or simply doing homework on time. Perhaps you are used to the workload from high school, or perhaps you are struggling with getting in the right groove. All semester though you have been working hard, and the stress sometimes doesn’t get any better. It always seems like as you finish one thing, there is just another thing waiting in the background to take it’s place. Then the dreaded finals approach. Everyone is running around, pulling late nights, just fighting to get ahead. It can be very stressful and overwhelming, but that doesn’t mean you have to deal with it by yourself though. Salem College has many proactive and preventive measures to help students adjust to campus. The Health Services center has nurses and doctors that you can see about any problems you may be experiencing. If you ever want to talk to someone, try the counseling services or even the listening post where you can go and talk to another student or intern of the counselors. The wellness classes, which are a required course here at Salem, have opportunities for students to participate in helping others around campus deal with stress. First years Fazia Iqubal, Nicole Zier, Hannah Kelsey, Zoey Dempsey, and Sophomore Mallory Needham conducted a wellness project that encompassed a de-stressing event where students could come and frolic in bubbles produced by the bubble machine, blow their own tiny bubbles or go big with the mega sticks. Events like these help Salem relax and ground again during a stressful time. Salem doesn’t only care about students physical well being, but puts an emphasis on their mental and emotional states as well.
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