Declining Student Resilience Summary

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Ayat Alansari Assignmnet#2 Reaction on Peter Gray’s article “Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges” I agree with Peter Gray on the fact that college students struggle during their university life, especially in their first semester of collage. Either freshmen or sophomore year is the first opportunity to form a collage/university identity. As a matter of fact, students at this point are still not stable to make their decisions as well as carry responsibilities. However, faculties and some parents are expecting of collage-aged students to handle issues of academics, relationships, and finances. According to the article, students who are reported to the counseling have highly increased because students could not help themselves out and they call emergency counseling or police for help rather than their parents. After reading the article, the cases were reported got my attention and got me thinking of when I had mice issues during my recent midterm exam and how it affected my academic life. …show more content…

Founding out mice in my apartment while preparing for my midterm and during the weekend, cause me as collage student to leave my place and ask for help. However, getting enough help from the resident assistant and friends were not enough to abate my fear and keep me stable to perform well as I needed to. Adding this fear to the high expectations I hold myself at, induce an anxiety attack about my exam. As a result, I struggled in solving my problem, stressed about grading GPA and caused me to feel over-whelming for the rest of the week. This personal example shows that the causes of over-whelming differ from college students and are dependent on

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