By Jaylyn Gonzalez For many students, the stress-filled season of online AP testing and submissions of AICE essays and projects has struck—leaving many struggling with concentration and a great lack of motivation. With hardcore studying and being on the verge of burning out, assignments have quickly turned into an ongoing cycle of boredom and immense…
By Edysmar Diaz-Cruz As I walk through the halls of Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC), students with dark circles and thick AP review books clutched in their arms all become one monotonous wave of anxiety, depression, self-doubt and everything a teenager shouldn’t be experiencing in the prime of their youth. The pressure to “make something…
Across the states, advances in education and the pressure to succeed is beginning to affect the lives of students. In the competitive society called the “real world”, teenagers and young adults are experiencing abnormally high levels of stress, more today than of previous years.