My Final Curricular Activities Analysis

For my final extracurricular activity I went to an event ran by an on campus Resident Assistant. At the event we went over how to not stress about finals and effective ways to study. I found this event to be very helpful and informative, we took time to talk about what was stressing us out and how to deal with it, we also played games to relax and have a calm conversation.
The first thing we did at this event was play a game to relax and get comfortable with each other after that we talked about finals. We went around the table talking about how many finales each of us had and how prepared we felt for them. This was really helpful cause hearing that other people were as anxious about their finals as me made me feel better about myself and how I was feeling.

Once we talked about of the finals we had we then talked about some strategies that we all have when it comes to studying.

One of the girls in the group suggested the use of quizlet and said she uses that to study for the majority of her finals. Another girl said she gets together with some people from her class and books a room in the library where they can study together. These were all tips that were very helpful and that I ended up using this semester to study for my finals. I used to just use notecards but now I find that talking out my answers with others is really effective and it help me learn, retain, and understand a lot more information then just doing notecards. Once we had talked about all of that we went around and talked about how stressed we all felt and just kind of listened to each other and offered to help one another. Something that I found that was really nice was one of the girls there was a freshman and she was freaking out because this was her first finals week and the first one is the hardest, but the RA running the event has the

same major as her and offered to study with her and help her and they set up times to help each other out. I thought that was a really nice thing to see, two people helping each other out just for the sake of helping not to get anything out of it. We ended the night playing some more games and just relaxing trying to take some of our stress away by having a good time together.
This event was really helpful for me. I have a lot of testing anxiety so when finals week comes around I get really stressed out and almost depressed. This event helped me to see that i'm not alone, there are so many other people on this campus that feel the same way that I do. This event was also helpful because I learned some new great ways to study and I got to have a nice time with some fellow students and friends and take a break from studying to relax with some games. I would definitely attend an event like this again. I would also recommend residents to go to these kind of events on campus. I think a lot of the time residents don't go to events because they think they will be boring but the event we have on campus are always intellectually interesting. This event is specifically perfect for people who have testing anxiety like myself, it was a good time to let out how I was feeling and having a good time. The best part about this event is I realised that I wasn't alone.