College turning out to be less stressful than thought

bag with cheese in the bottom. You couldn't even put ketchup on these because the buns were stuck together. It didn't help either that you only had a halfhour to eat, including the time to get your food. At least I think the food's good here.

200 people in the halls at a time. The hallways got even narrower when other students were taking books out of their lockers.

BRIAN SMITH STAFF WRITER BTS723@CABRINI.EDU

All changes involve some level of stress, and I assume the transition from high school to college is especially stressful. However, after you get used to Cabrini College, I have found that college is much less stressful than high school. In fact, that's probably why these are called the best years of your life.

First of all, the biggest stress factor of all is college life. One extreme is depression; I've heard some people cry over being away from home. The next is celebration. It should be no mystery what college students do with their freedom here. If you're feeling anything in-between, you're probably used to campus life already. This obviously isn't even a problem for commuters; I just hope you don't have to drive too far.

However, overall I think college is less stressful than high school. I'll tell you about my high school and you may compare.

First, there is sleep. For my high school, I had to wake up at about 5:30 a.m. to catch the bus on time. Now, in college I find that if I wanted to, I could take all my classes in the afternoon. Now I get all the sleep I want, unless my roommate or parties keep me up.

Next is food. I've beard students complain about how horrible the cafeteria food here is, but you haven't seen my high school's cafeteria. While Cabrini's cafeteria has cheeseburgers, my high school's cafeteria has soggy hamburgers in a plastic

The overall tnvironment here is an open-air campus, which is great in the spring b_uthell in the winter. My high school was in mid-construction. It was also incredibly crowded. In-between periods there seems to be over

Of course, everything's different for every high school, but I assume· that every high school has a few things in common being bad food, waking up early and an old building. But Cabrini at least meets these basic needs of rest, food and environment. However, I'm not saying that high school is all that bad. When you leave high school, you may

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Lastly, there is the work, which must vary school to school. Most high schools have some assignments and homework everyday with some projects once in a while. Meanwhile, I've found that most classes here have little written homework and

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more essays, research papers and long-term projects. Hopefully your high school has prepared you for this level of work, and of course you still have control of what classes you'll take.

Basically, college seems less stressful than high school because it's a little easier. It seems that college is overall less strict, and of course, it's easy to find something fun around here.

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