Lee+B's+Op-Ed+Article

= **A Complaint About Complaints: Stress** = **By Lee B**





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Complaining in general is a pet peeve of mine. However, recently one complaint has successfully driven me to vent via this assignment. This complaint has unnerved me about the past four months. Please, for my sanity, stop.

I understand it's your junior year. You're stressed. But why do you insistently have to inform others of your stress level? It's almost as painful as junior year itself. You don't think I'm stressed? You don't think that I want to burn all my papers along with my textbooks in an act of defiance? Do you honestly think that the rest of your classmates don't have as much, if not more stress than you? Get over it.

It's the third quarter. No one cares that you have five hours of homework or sports or music or that your cat ate all your trigonometry homework or that you only got two hours of sleep last night or that your cat threw up your trigonometry homework all over your room. So do the rest of your classmates a favor: stop complaining about your workload. We're all going through the same things. We're all going to make it through this year whether about 90% of us are brain dead by the end. You don't have to constantly remind me how stressed you are.

Maybe if you had made your schedule more manageable, you wouldn't be so stressed. But instead, you chose to kill yourself with a workload that is probably physically impossible to manage. It's your own fault. But please, for the sake of your fellow classmates, stop complaining about your stress level. It's only going to stress me out more.