Schools provide puppies, massages to ease exam stress – IOTW Report

Schools provide puppies, massages to ease exam stress

CampusReform- With final exams approaching, some universities are offering their students stress relief measures such as puppies, acupuncture, and massages to ensure they don’t get too stressed out.

The University of North Carolina-Wilmington, for example, is providing its students with a “relaxation station,” complete with a number of stress relieving activities like puzzles, coloring, massages, puppies, and even acupuncture.

“Need to relieve some stress with finals quickly approaching?” asks UNCW Campus Recreation. “Check out the relaxation station on reading day…it’s a great study break.”

The post also lists “snacks” twice, as an extra reminder to students scrounging for free food during finals week.  MORE

24 Comments on Schools provide puppies, massages to ease exam stress

  1. my dad whooped my ass with his gun belt if any bad reports from my mom when he returned from work

    if i lost a fight at school, i had to put on the gloves and go 5 rounds with my dad

    i ate soap for bad language and drank tabasco sauce for lying

    puppies, massages, and acupunture

    holy fucking shit

    as you can see, the soap never had an effect on me, but i turned out good otherwise

    my dad is best man, my mom best woman of my life

  2. A nice, safe, relaxation station suitable for the likes of me would be a pistol range with loaner Buckmarks, Hi-Powers, and 1911s, and buckets of free ammo and ear plugs. Let’s hear it for John M. Browning, guru of peace!

  3. When I was in nursing school, can you imagine when I was being tested on CPR that I could take a “stress break”?!! Excuse me, patient, but you are stressing me out with your dying.

  4. Ever had a business negotiation go down to the wire? Ever looked for a job in a competitve field? Ever waited in a hospital for a child to get out of surgery? Ever been in court for anything? Ever stayed awake at night wondering if you would lose your job? Ever had a spouse leave you? Ever been by the bedside of a dying loved one?

    College examinations may be stressful, but in the big scheme of things they are not. College isn’t stressful until you get out and start paying back your student loans while still trying to figure out what you want to be when you grow up. Universities and colleges are not doing these young people any favors by coddling them; real life will always have moments which are a bitch.

  5. When I was in college I found that attending classes, doing the reading/assignments, and studying worked well to reduce exam-stress. I earned good grades too, helpful in job seeking. Coincidence?

  6. Just for the grins I applied for a staff adjuster job with a big insurance firm, knowing they want a degree for consideration for a position (my degree is decades of adjusting claims).
    In the College areas of the application I wrote that I have not as yet had the privilege of attending much Adult Day Care
    Turns out, I am not what they are currently seeking, but rest assured they will keep my resume on file and if anything matches my experience set they contact me.

  7. Oh My Goodness Gracious!!!! Thank goodness our kids went to college 16-14 years ago. Both knew what was required of them by us. Both graduated are are Trump voters. 🙂

    I would really hate to be a parent of a high school/college kid today.

  8. Good grief.
    I was never in a war zone, I only participated in the Cold War as crew on a submarine.
    But I know guys who did or read about their life after the war. For most of them nothing short of someone again trying to kill them stresses them out. Every other event in life is trivial in comparison.

    I hope we never have to depend on this bunch to stand ready to do violence on our behalf in our stead while we’re safe in our beds (or tub) at home.

    None of these cupcakes have faced any real stress. They invent stupid stuff to stress about.

  9. @Blink: You are absolutely correct. However, I believe being a crew member on a submarine during the Cold War would qualify as a very stressful event, at least for me. Thanks for your service.

  10. Massages? Ewww, no. These types of people are not clean and I wouldn’t trust one of them even to rub my feet.

    jclady, you’ll be glad to know my 13-year-old (and several of his friends) completely resist indoctrination in their middle school. Being a very red state, it’s not **quite** as bad as elsewhere, but hey, we’re talking the Dept of Ed here. He comes home with stories of stupid crap some of the snowflake kids say and I think his eyes roll more furiously than mine. Don’t despair, conservative kids are out there!!!

  11. I agree, Lisl. Many of the essays that I score are written by kids who disagree with the liberal crap they are told to read and write about (Common Core). Most of them receive top scores because they know how to write!

  12. Stress? I guess it’s all relative. I grew up in a military family and lived in nine different houses before eighth grade. My own military time was Army, enlisted, during the Vietnam war. My first real dose of stress was arriving at my first duty station in Korea as a brash newbie white boy who’d made E-4 in 25 weeks from induction (yes, it was possible; story on demand) and found that his NCOIC was a Black E-8 who had taken eight years to make E-4 and hated me and all that I represented on sight. It didn’t matter that I had never done anything that affected him in the slightest way, it was “this damn white boy made E-4 in less than six months.” That’s stress. It helped that I was quite good at my job, but not much.

    But it was constant, intense, undeserved, and there was absolutely nothing I or anyone else could do about it. Suck it up was my only option. So I did, unlike today’s jejune morally preening youth who run crying to their safe space to suck their thumbs and bwankies.

    p.s. My dad was also a submariner, Blink. Exec and then skipper during WWII. A special breed, submariners are. I could not have picked a finer father if I’d had the whole world to choose from. He passed away in 2014 just shy of his 94th birthday.

  13. @Vietvet Thanks, I guess it had it’s moments, but no one ever shot at me with an AK47.
    @Uncle Al – Cool. I never served with any of the sub vets from WWII, but I did serve with crew members who had. It always seemed to me those guys were always just a little faster than anyone else responding to fires or other on board emergencies. No doubt a lesson instilled in them from serving with the old breed from WWII. I am pleased to have once been part of the Pacific submarine fleet.

    Anyway, imo – the snow flakes in the puppy rooms need a real life event with real stress so they will know the real thing from the imagined, and stop the foolishness.

  14. @Uncle Al: Army rank was pretty easy to make during the Vietnam War, but E-4 in 24 weeks was definitely fast. I forget exactly how long it took me, but I was E-4 when I got levied out from Germany to the Nam after 17 months in service and made E-5 while I was there at around the 2-year mark, if memory serves.

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