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Students on Michigan State's campus are trying to balance their social lives and academics while maintaining a job and planning for their future goals. “Keeping grades up, getting all of your extracurricular in, and finding time to eat, sleep, and have friends; it’s a lot of stress to fit all of that into 24 hours,” MSU senior Colin Lesoski said. Most students are going through some of the same stresses and can relate when they talk about some of the major differences they faced transitioning from high school to college.  The work load just seems impossible and some students feel that professors just don't care. There are huge lectures containing about 400 or more students and one professor can only do so much for a person unless you're in their office begging for extra credit every week.  To destress and keep from pulling their hair out, some students have gained daily routines of their own that relaxes their ner...

Stress is known to be apart of any normal person's life-cycle whether it is money issues or a near and dear death in the family, but no sample of stress has the same characteristics as another. College students  take on the stresses of living a completely different lifestyle when they leave their parent's nest and enter what seems like a new world for them. According to the  2015 National College Health Assessment  30 percent of students have reported a negative performance academically due to stress. Class, exams, campus organizations, family, friends, parties, work, internships, and don't forget the eight-page essay due on Monday morning! These are just some of the rambling thoughts that goes through a college student's mind, not to mention any financial problems or conflicts they have following from home. But  David Sneed , Director of Growth and Purpose for Students at Belmont University, said "saying 'no' is a great stress reducer." So...

Sophomore entrepreneur Amir Butler said Michigan State University's entrepreneurial program has given her many new resources and helped her business excel even more. Butler is the owner and designer of fashion line Soreem . She started her business as a freshman at Michigan State and used resources such as the MSU fashion show and Spartan Remix to promote herself. “It’s helped me get a lot of recognition... A lot of people have come up to me more saying that they like my stuff and they want to buy it,” Butler said. William Murphy, sophomore at MSU, is a entrepreneur as well with a business in bow tie designs. Murphy works with his mother from home for their brand Reignbow Ties and they later plan to turn this small business into a corporation . Although statistics show that at least 50 percent of start-up's fail within four years, these young entrepreneurs are prepared to take on the challenge.