Photo by Justina Huang If you’re like most students, when finals time rolls around you can’t help but feel a sense of impending doom. In fact, severe test anxiety affects as much as 20 percent of the school-going population, with another 18 percent having moderate forms of the condition, according to the American Test Anxieties Association. While other students … [Read more...] about Study Tips: Don’t Let Finals Be Your End
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Don’t Let Stress Get the Best of You
Art by Peau ProtesanoIf you're like most Pepperdine students, you're under a fair amount of stress right now. You may be on the second round of midterms, preparing for finals, or even stressing about jobs and graduation. It's completely understandable if you're dying of anxiety. However, large amounts of stress can be damaging to your health, as well as your grades, and it's … [Read more...] about Don’t Let Stress Get the Best of You
Grab an Ax
You’re not going to make it. You’ve taken on too many units, too many extracurriculars, finals are less than a month away and you’re almost out of meal points. Yes, finals are coming. Just as certain as death, taxes and Convocation. They are coming. But these sentiments aren’t completely true, are they? I have no idea how many meal points you have. Maybe … [Read more...] about Grab an Ax
Here are our Blueprints for the Payson Utopia
Art by Peau PorotesanoMany have spoken in hushed tones about Payson Library renovations that are to come — mainly because it’s a library, where talking at full volume is not allowed. However, there is a certain elusiveness and, dare we say, sense of foreboding toward these changes only spoken of in mere whispers, like “You-Know-Who.” After all, how many … [Read more...] about Here are our Blueprints for the Payson Utopia
How to Ace Finals Fashion
Photo by Miqveh Steinhart It’s that time of the year again, “Dead Week” — or for some, “I Feel Like I am Dying Week.” The sky is crying, but you feel as if you should be instead because you have that borderline grade in that one class — or all of your classes. Either way, the last thing you want to think about is what to wear while you’re studying — or next week when … [Read more...] about How to Ace Finals Fashion