Stress: Shear or Tensile?

That, my friends, is what you call an engineering joke. Not funny, right?

But seriously, I figured it was past time for a new post, and this has been in the sidebar for quite some time. Besides that, it's also fitting for my life right now. As some of you may know, I have five finals coming up in the next week mixed in with some homework.

As a second year engineering student, my load is not exactly easy right now. That being said, I also know that I can look forward to so much more in the next two and a half years.

So, stress. What is it? Who has it? How is it dealt with?

Stress sucks, to put it bluntly. I hate having so much work to do and feeling like I'm unable to do it (for various reasons). Coupled with this is the importance of work. I mean, if you have a bunch of work, but it's super easy and not important, it's way easier to stay calm and unstressed. However, if you have really difficult, important work, it gets a little tougher to not stress.

Who has it? Everyone. I don't care what you say, you've stressed before. Maybe not to the extreme, maybe it wasn't terrible, but I'm 99% sure that you have been stressed out before (unless you're under the age of 12, then that percentage goes down). I stress, that's for sure. Usually it's not bad enough to really affect me, but sometimes I lose it a little bit.

How do people deal with it? I'm not too sure about you, but when I get super stressed out, I just hit the point where I start to shut down. I stop doing work, and I feel like I'm unable to keep going, so I find ways to distract myself in hopes that I will feel more motivated afterwards. Unfortunately, this often only ends up giving me less time to do the same amount of work.

There you have it I suppose, my precursor to stress. Will there be more said? Probably not. At least, not right now, and not without a little prodding, but I will gladly expand on anything you're curious about. Also, let it be known that I used this free write to wake myself up a little bit, so it might not entirely make sense and it probably left y'all hanging.

In other news, I sincerely hope to put a few more posts up in December when I'm (hopefully) not so busy/stressed. Thanks.