MIT students describe how they create space to be mentally and physically healthy while tackling difficult challenges.
Utilizing Strategies
MIT students share the strategies they have used to cope with difficult situations. While there are many routes to overcoming challenges and no single strategy will work for everyone, listening to others’ strategies might help you reframe your own struggles and cope more easily.
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Health & Wellness
Building healthy habits, supportive relationships, and joy
Learning more effectively, setting priorities, and exploring academic interests
Recognizing unhelpful ways of thinking and gaining new perspectives
Building healthy habits, supportive relationships, and joy
Cultivating awareness of thoughts and emotions and focusing on the present
Reaching out to others to gain perspective and access support
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Social Connections
View all clips: Social ConnectionsHear MIT students discuss how giving and receiving support from peers has helped them stick to their study plans, prevent overload, and keep them energized.
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Sleep
View all clips: SleepHear strategies for getting enough sleep and how sleep has positively impacted MIT students’ overall performance.