Final stress students

From spending long hours in the library to pulling all-nighters, the stress of finals week is sometimes overwhelming. Everyone has the "perfect" formula for dealing with and venting this stress. "I am the worst stress manager ever. I totally bug out [and] cry," College senior Katie Simons said. "I try to get away from distracting places. I go to the library [and] hole myself up in a little carrel in Van Pelt. "A much better way to deal with stress is to sit around and tell everybody on your hall how stressed you are," added Simons, a Residential Advisor in the Quadrangle. "And then everybody feels better because they know everybody is stressed." College freshman Danielle Silverman offered her own strategy for coping with stress. "I watch TV, I talk on the phone and I like to go to sleep early and then just get up early in the morning and do everything," she said. But some students' methods for dealing with stress are a bit unusual. One Wharton senior, who asked to remain anonymous, said he relaxes by shooting squirrels with a BB gun. College sophomore Austin Lieb described his own unusual stress-relieving tactic. "Usually I wrestle with my friends in the frat house, and every once in a while we put each other's heads through the wall," he said. "I'm kind of nervous about my finals because I usually don't go to class, so I have to review everything."