friend and college roommate experience a stressful tirade stemmed from

procrastinating. It was 12:30 am. and he was about to quite doing his art

homework and watch TV and mess around on his computer when he

realized had a paper due to next day for his 8:00 class that he was suppose to

have done research for previously. Of course, no research had been done

and I could see him begin the initial signs of stress immediately. He began

to say "Oh my god, oh my god, that paper is due tomorrow.....I am never

going to be able to finish it. His frantic "Oh my gods" and getting up out of

his chair pacing back and forth would definitely be the alarm stage of stress.

He quickly went over to his stack of books and papers and frantically flipped

through them looking for the class syllabus which stated the exac

could see that he had begun to sweat and his face was red/flushed. He had

couldn't take this and he was just going to go to bed, there is no way he can

this happen in our friends life's as well as our own. To analyze this, and to

type away. After he had a few pages done, he began to joke around with me

more strong and visible. He began to swear because he couldn't find the

about and didn't believe he could complete with the time available to do so.

inability to think rationally, and being overwhelmed.

began to say, "there is no way I can do this, I might as well just not write it

observed. His stressor was finding out that he had a paper due that he forgot

which caused typing mistakes that frustrated him on a continuing basis.

appropriate for this situation, I am able to list a few major points of stress.

Some common words found in the essay are:
, paper due, oh god, stress signs, able finish,
Approximate Word count = 589
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)