CMU offers different ways to ease pains
Anthony Posler was excited when he saw the line for free pizza Sunday night in the Charles V. Park Library.
“I was glad because I hadn’t eaten anything all night and then I walked in here,” the Marshall senior said.
The free pizza was part of Finals Focus, a week of nightly prize drawings and giveaways, that included a semester of free textbooks.
The event takes place throughout the week at the Park library and Student Activity Center.
Greenville senior Kristen Hansen attended the event at the library.
“We kind of planned our studying around it,” she said. “Free books would be nice.”
Sunday night was home to other test apprehension events as well.
To help students prepare for exams, Elizabeth Meadows, associate psychology professor and director of the Trauma and Anxiety Disorders Clinic, organized a test anxiety workshop Sunday night in the Bovee University Center’s Isabella Room.
“(Students) don’t have to be really stressed and anxious about exams,” she said. “There are things they can do about it.”
Three graduate students presented information on different areas of coping with test anxiety.
Ludington graduate student Jessica Sobanski taught the workshop attendees how to retrain their breathing by focusing on breathing from their diaphragms.
“(It) teaches you to breathe at a rate and depth that is optional for you,” she said.
Students with additional questions or problems can contact the Trauma and Anxiety Disorders Clinic in the Health Professions Building.
