College students are constantly put into stressful situations with exams, papers,
and assignments, school starts to become a student's priority over health
motivation and happiness
I'm here Stanford over the summer for research and I've just finished my third
year at MIT so I know all of this firsthand. In this video, along with
taking you around my day as usual I'm going to tell you that it's very
possible to succeed and also stay happy and healthy in the process
Hey, I just got ready for the day and I'm here just outside my dorm room it's a beautiful
day so it's already a good start to the day and right now we're just about to
head to breakfast I think today's gonna be a pretty exciting day, one of my more
eventful days that I've logged so far because I'm going to have research I'm
going to have an opportunity to work in the wind tunnel and maybe also do
something later today because it's Friday so come along for the ride
Right now I'm heading to breakfast to get a quick bite to eat before I head over to
lab. I didn't leave Timmy he actually overslept so I'm going to head over
before it closes so I have a chance to eat
the first part of taking care of yourself is surrounding yourself with
people that have your best interest in mind I have a group of people that I
I know that I can go to for just about anything and I think that's really
important because no matter what is going on with me at any given time I
know that I'm not alone and just knowing that I have that safety
net of people's support allows me to push myself further than I would have
otherwise. On a similar note don't forget about the people that have always
unconditionally cared about you: your family regardless of how you're doing in
school or how your life is going at any particular moment in time your family
will always be there for you because they just want you to be happy. One of
the biggest things that I've learned is that if you talk out your problems with
the people that actually care about you, you'll be able to come up with more
rational solutions faster than you would have otherwise so there's absolutely no
reason that you should keep everything bottled up. That will just hurt you more
and in turn the people that care about you as well. So right now I'm just going
to head into lab, usually I go in and just get settled and have a short
conversation with the graduate student who I'm working under and just to see what
we're going to be doing for the day. I think today's gonna be pretty eventful
you'll see
so I just walked into lab and touched bases with the grad student and turns
out the physics shop is open right now and the physics shop is a place on
campus where researchers and students can go and get some supplies that they
need whether it's an Arduino, a wire or some type of fitting, so I'm going to go
in right now because I have a part that I need and I also need to pick up an
Arduino so let's hit in there
so that was a successful trip I got the things that I needed now it's time to
head back to lab and see if I can make any of this work
Know you're worth. Trust me I know it's easy to just beat up on yourself for not
being good enough because I've done that a lot in the past but remember that
wherever you are in life right now and whatever you've done or haven't done you
are in your own respect a special individual. Instead of focusing on the
things that you lack, focus in on everything that you succeed in or
provide to the people around you. Just like you'll be there for a friend when
they're down to lift their spirits up, be there for yourself and lift your own
spirits up when you're feeling down. It's totally normal to be self-critical but
you should also make it totally normal to be self praising as well.
So of course, when I finally sit down to start working my head laptop is discharged and I
forgot my charger at home so right now I'm heading back to my dorm and pick up my laptop charger.
So I got my charger and that was actually more inconvenient
than I thought it would be. My dorm is about half a mile away in a couple of
flights of stairs also so I'm actually just pretty tired. It also got pretty
hot so I started sweating on the walk over because I'm trying not to miss that
much time in lab because I was actually pretty excited to sit down and actually
start working on this Arduino but now I'm heading back so should be good
the rest of the day so I did make some progress and just game-planning what I'm
about to do but I got hungry so I'm about to head over with Timmy to just
have some lunch
Find something you're passionate about that's non-academic. You've heard me say
this many times but I can't reiterate it enough. Playing basketball and staying
fit gives me the opportunity to stop thinking about all the stress involved
with school and with my research. It's in those moments where I can just do
something that I enjoy with a free mind. When I did have those times where I
wasn't able to play basketball or go to the gym or just stay active, I wasn't as
happy and it was noticeable, so now I make sure to just go play for a bit
whenever I feel as if I'm not making any progress on the work that I'm working on
and then when I get back I end up being more productive than I was before I left
so I make up for that time anyway. Now it's time to get back to work and yeah
it's pretty cool because the thing about research is that it's so novel and this
stuff hasn't been done before so I'm trying to read a bunch of papers, go
through different articles just to try to put different things together and
make the system that I want to make, and that challenge really excites me and
keeps me going and keeps me motivated to keep trying to learn more things
so I'm just coming back from lab right now and I actually had a really great
day after the whole forgot my charger incident I was able to go to 3d printer
to print some extra parts that I needed but I was also able to code my Arduino
and have it so that keyboard input would vary how long my linear servo would
become and that's really the biggest challenge of my project so it was really
happy that came out well. Now I just made it back to my dorm and I'm probably
going to relax a little bit before dinner and just watch a show or two and
see how it goes
Just like you scheduled time for meetings and assignment due dates,
scheduled time for just to you either on an actual calendar or just mentally in
your head, slot off say Saturday evening just to unwind and binge watch a show on
Netflix or just relax or take a nap. Having something to look forward to at
the end of a stressful week will help keep you optimistic and motivated during
the week even during weekends where I didn't technically have anything planned
I made sure to know to myself that I'm not going to do anything work-related
Saturday evenings, that I'm just going to relax. This past semester I got into a
great groove where I can work extra hard for forth the seven days of the week in
academics, spend a day or two for YouTube, and still have at least a day to just
unwind. And because of this groove I was able to sustain my success in YouTube in
my classes and in my research
one of the many perks this program is that all our meals are paid for so for
breakfast and dinner we get meals in the dining hall and even though the food
isn't that great it's still good to have a good variety of food and to just be
able to fill up every time I have dinner or breakfast. As we get further along
into this program we're all getting more comfortable with each other so dinner becomes
a good chance to catch up and just have fun and relax and de-stress about
school and it's just always great
so we're now heading back from the gym we thought it closed an hour later
so we only ended up being there for 15 minutes but it was still fun to shoot
around just de-stress for today. Now we're heading back and I really don't
know what we're going to do we might just watch some Netflix show or Hulu
show, don't really know yet but yeah we're getting back
so tonight we really just chilled we ended up just watching a show and
just talking. It's actually chill nights like these where I really appreciate the
type of people I surround myself with and I think that's a big part of why
I've been so successful for so long. Just having people that I can talk to and not
feel pressured to do any specific thing and just enjoy myself it's really
something that I don't take lightly and I don't take for granted because I
really appreciate the people that are around me every day. So if there's one
thing to take away from this video is just take care of yourself. You can be
successful and be happy at the same time. You don't have to choose between one or
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