I attended the dinner talk regarding stress where the GRF and other students discussed how they handle stress at Cornell. Because stress is an inevitable aspect of college life, I think that this talk was much needed and especially around the time when the 2nd round of prelims were starting! In my opinion, this was a very effective conversation because its informal nature allowed us to speak up and express how stress affects us on campus and how we individually deal with it. After hearing about how well certain study tips have worked for GRF Seema and other Rose Scholars (ex. chunking the study material into reasonable portions and rotating topics so you don’t get tired), I became more inspired to switch up my study techniques because they provided convincing opinions about how they have helped. In the future, I hope that I will remember to chunk my study material and use my stress to my advantage to help me complete my assignments instead of being scared of it.