As the 2023-2024 school year begins, Aliso Niguel students struggle with adjusting from their summer schedules to the current school one, which leads students to become exhausted, and frankly burnt out.
Many struggle to find ways to stay motivated with their work as the school year progresses and the workload becomes greater.
Junior Ariel Christensen says, “What helps me stay academically motivated is making sure I always have time for myself. I feel like people get burned out because as soon as they get home, they start homework.”
Students that take time to not only focus on how much they are studying but on how much they are taking care of their mental and physical health helps them not get tired of the daily stress of school.
Other students find motivation for future achievements to enable them to work harder and always look at their future outcomes. Senior, Mia Perez, says, “I stay academically motivated by thinking about how my current actions will impact my future with college applications currently in process. A way I try to keep on top of my schoolwork is by treating it like a challenge for me to finish my assignments by a certain hour.”
When a student feels like they are becoming burnt out from the overloads of school work they must step back and look at the bigger picture of what is to come from this work.
It is also okay to step aways from the work and take time for themselves by going on a walk, taking a break and going on their phone, or any form of exercise.
The Rochester Institute of Technology did a study on the performance of students and seeing how their burnt out behavior may affect their performance in the classroom and it was shown that students begin having an expressed amount of anxiety, depression, troubles with sleeping, disinterest in school and changes in appetite.
When students find a lack of motivation in their schoolwork it shows, from the decrease in their grade, to their overall performance.
When experiencing any feelings of tiredness and not feeling any motivation, always look forward. Remember college boards and counselors will look at your performance and it can either help or ruin chances of further academic growth.
It’s always good to have positive pep talks, set goals, make some time for yourself, talk about your stress and stay healthy mentally and physically with either meditation or going out for a run or walking in some fresh air.
No matter how tough school and the workload may get at times there is always a bright side and a great outcome to how much effort and thought is put into work.
As long as students set themselves up for a positive and healthy work environment and stay motivated they will be capable of getting over the exhaustion and burn out that the new school and its workload each year may bring.
