Last Wednesday I attended the Rose Café event on stress advice and meditation. I learned how stress affects people by hearing the experience of other Rose Scholars.  I thought that the advice given was great but I wasn’t too sure about it being realistic for me. I feel that some of the advice was stuff that I’ve heard before but never really put into practice. I’ve heard about planners before but I think that something always comes up and I don’t really stick to my plan. Sometimes I just don’t manage my time well. One of the things that stuck with me the most from the event was hearing how we need 9 hours of sleep each night. I don’t think that this is something that I can realistically accomplish because I usually take2-3 hour naps after I eat dinner just so that I can study until 3am. Then I sleep maybe 5 or 6 hours. I’m not really sure how meditation would fit into my schedule cause I tend to finish all of my responsibilities that don’t include studying by dinner time so I guess I technically consider my nap time to be meditation time. I’ve heard the advice regarding exercising in the past and I usually try to do that in the morning before class but sometimes sleep gets in the way because when I’m just too tired I don’t feel like getting up early in the morning and just choose to sleep instead of exercising.