Academic anxiety results from deeply worrying about one’s academic performance. Exams, pressure from parents, and deadlines have all been correlated with anxiety spikes. Anxiety can feel like you are being eaten from the inside out. Such discomfort, uncertainty, and fear can make the school year hell.
As an anxious and ambitious academic myself, here’s my quick and dirty guide on how to manage academic anxiety:
- When you need to sleep, sleep.
- Do not tie test scores to your worth.
- Have a space where you’ll never do work.
- Find what makes *you* more productive.
- Have time set aside where you will not work.
- Do not feed into imposter syndrome.
- Learn how and when to say no.
- Organize your syllabi (here’s the app I use.)
- Do not take on extracirriculars just for the sake of doing it.
- Do not forget to call/text/visit your support system.
- Know why you’re in school.
- If in college, major in something that genuienly interests you.
- Do weekly mental health checkins.
- Quickly learn which courses need to be prioritized.
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