By Blake Kim and Lili Metanovic
Do you ever find yourself feeling burnt out, unmotivated, and unable to continue doing many grueling hours of schoolwork? Many high school students experience these burnouts– where completing simple tasks seems like climbing Mount Everest. Laborious schoolwork puts high school students under extreme pressure, forcing them to feel empty and unable to cope with their ever-growing workload
During this school year, we encourage you to take breaks. Breaks are necessary, as they reduce stress and ensure students work harder. They promote wellbeing and without breaks, it’s easier to get fatigued or burnt out from the tedious work many students deal with during high school and college. In a race, all cars must make pit stops to change their tires and oil. Similarly, students need to take pit stops to ensure that their ‘car’ is functioning at its highest capability. Taking breaks improves attitudes, as well as physical and mental health, all contributing to the creation of better work in general. We also encourage you to figure out what your ‘tires’ are. What can you change about your own work habits to optimize your race?
Additionally, you need to discover what you are passionate about, and what motivates you to continue doing spectacular things. As soon as students lose passion, they burn out and never regain the motivation they once had for an activity or project. Considering this, it is clear to see that students need to determine what they believe in. Once an activity has a higher meaning, students become more motivated; they become completely set on improving and finishing their pursuits.
Utilizing the benefits of taking breaks and finding passions, we hope that procrastination and senioritis lose their grip on the Westmont students in the 24-25 school year!