Hello Math Majors,
As always, I hope that you have been doing well as the semester continues to roll along. I expect that your first exams in many classes have just wrapped up, are happening right now, or will happen before the end of the next week. Remember, you have many academic resources available to you on campus, and these resources are freely available to you as a student.
There are additional resources available to help you as a student outside of just your academics. Building resilience is a very important thing as a student as you are going to have weeks with multiple exams, papers, and/or projects due. According to Big Red Resilience and Well-being, "Resilience is a skill set of behaviors, thoughts and actions you can develop to help manage change, hardship and disappointment. Persisting and growing through adversity enhances flexibility, overall functioning and well-being." Big Red Resilience and Well-being offers many resources to help you built resilience as a student including well-being coaching from fellow undergraduate students, a well-being assessment, and money management coaching. There are nine overall dimensions of well-being, and it is good to know how you feel and where you stand on all of them. This also offer many self-care tips to help you both as a student and as an adult.
Some issues are more individualized than the general dimensions of well-being, and for such issues, there is Counseling and Psychological Services or CAPS. CAPS offers both individual counseling, group meetings, and workshops to help you explore your feelings and thoughts and learn helpful ways to improve your mental, psychological, and emotional well-being when issues arise. All complete list of groups and drop-in workshops along with their upcoming meetings can be found here. One of the newer workshops, Pandemic Resilience, can really help with the persistent stress of COVID. Individual counseling can be setup by calling (402) 472-7450, and you should tell them if it is your first time visiting CAPS. Remember, individual counseling sessions are freely available to current UNL students.
Crisis care is available any time by calling that same number, (402) 472-7450, and you decide how you define "crisis". If you are an imminent danger to yourself or others, please call 911, call the University of Nebraska-Lincoln police department at (402) 472-2222, or go to the nearest emergency room [Bryan Medical Center West (2300 S. 16th St) - closest to city campus; Bryan Medical Center East (1600 S 48th St) - closest to east campus; St. Elizabeth CHI Health Center (555 S 70th St) - closest to Southeast Community College].
I am more than happy to help if there is anything that you need academically or personally.
Best wishes, Doug
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