{"id":815,"date":"2013-05-10T12:16:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:48:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:48:02","slug":"cram-for-the-exam-aims-to-soothe-students-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/cram-for-the-exam-aims-to-soothe-students-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Cram for the Exam’ aims to soothe students’ anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ali Schmitz
\nSpecial to In Motion<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tutor Joy Bancraft and student Tatyana Shevchuk work together. Photo by Brittany Fournier.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During any normal day at the College Writing Center, it’s a quiet, pencils-on-paper scratching for words atmosphere. Occasionally, whispers are heard between students and tutors.<\/p>\n

Finals week is the complete opposite. The room is packed with students in tears on the edge of desperation. Fearing failure, finals week has a negative connotation among students.<\/p>\n

The Academic Support Center, in conjunction with the DSC\/UCF Writing Center, is trying to change that with an event called “Cram for the Exam.”<\/p>\n

May 6<\/a>-8 the ASC will be holding the event in the Karl Resource Center, better known as the campus library in building 210. It starts\u00a0at 7 nightly<\/a>. Instead of traditional hours, the center will stay open until\u00a010 p.m.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0“Cram for the Exam” will offer workshops on various subjects, such as math, history, government and English. In fact, virtually every subject taught at the College will be covered by volunteer and staff tutors.<\/p>\n

ASC staff members don’t want the event to feel boring so they’ve devised activities and other strategies to relieve students’ \u00a0stress. This includes yoga and meditation exercises, brain building and even therapy dogs for students to pet.<\/p>\n

DeLand campus staff member Adriana Paiva expressed\u00a0 her excitement for the event.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Everyone gets very nervous around finals, so breathing techniques and pizza will calm students down.”<\/p>\n

This is not the first “Cram for the Exam.”. The ASC also held one for introductory courses in March.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we\u2019re really focusing on everyone, which means we\u2019ll have about 500 more students coming to visit us,\u201d Daytona Campus ASC Supervisor Bob Balsamo said.<\/p>\n

The entire ASC staff will be there to assist with various subjects. The March event was highly successful, according to Balsamo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had one guy come and visit us on a\u00a0Monday night<\/a>, but he said he wasn\u2019t sure he\u2019d make it back on Tuesday because he had a soccer practice. Tuesday he came back and brought the entire team. Word of mouth is really going to help us. Everyone knows how much students like pizza,\u201d Balsamo said.<\/p>\n

For information on the event, call the ASC or CWC at 506-3673 or 506-3297, \u00a0\u00a0respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During any normal day at the College Writing Center, it’s a quiet, pencils-on-paper scratching for words atmosphere. Occasionally, whispers are heard between students and tutors.<\/p>\n

Finals week is the complete opposite. The room is packed with students in tears on the edge of desperation. Fearing failure, finals week has a negative connotation among students.<\/p>\n

The Academic Support Center, in conjunction with the DSC\/UCF Writing Center, is trying to change that with an event called “Cram for the Exam.” Continue reading ‘Cram for the Exam’ aims to soothe students’ anxiety<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}