Future - Evo-devo And Coping In School

[Deleted member 27340]

I'm seriously considering studying evo-devo (or its proper name: evolutionary developmental biology), and I wonder if anyone knows where the best place for studying this would be? I'm aiming for the top. They've got courses in it on Harvard, I think they're more specialized. Oxford also has a three-year course of biology science, which would be a nice place to start, but I don't know.

Also, how do you manage anxiety in school? Anxiety and fatigue makes it hard to stay motivated, and nearly panicking every time I'm walking from my part of the building to the cafeteria because of all the people in the corridors, before continuing to have strong anxiety in the cafeteria because of all the people and the huge room. I would stay in the classroom if it hadn't been for meeting my friend, who's in another grade and therefore another part of the building where I'm not allowed to go. I will be looking into trying meds to cope with this, but it might not be possible because my father is strictly against it.

 

[Deleted member 27340]

Found more information about where to study. Top universities with the course are MIT, Harvard and Cambridge. Not really a surprise.

 

[Recovery4Me]

Also, how do you manage anxiety in school?

What are you currently doing to balance your self care and school? I ask in interest.

I think a good place for anyone to start is to understand their connection to their body, age, hormones, biology, bone development, needed exercise, rest and nutrition. Understanding these beautiful parts allows us to make choices to optimize.

As sleep, food needs vary each age group it is actually a smart move to study in order to maintain anxiety as well. Certain foods can assist with chemical balance during cycles for women as well. Have you matched what you eat to the newest food pyramid? Have you matched certain veggies to certain uptakes in building blocks for axion coating or neuron firings? It is amazing how it can help and scientifically backed.

For me, an non-prescription natural plant that calmed me was St.John Worts. It took a while to figure out the right dosage and specific brands, types of capsules that dissolved and did not collect in the belly. It helped with my panic attacks when I increased green leafy veggies like kale, spinach, collard greens ect as well because my brain could stop the knee jerk reaction as I talked myself down and slowed down the cortisol of stress.

I also wore a ring that I would rub as I started to stress, (like the rubber band trick of snapping on your wrist now) when I started to breath too quick and think a pre-planned self-affirmation (to rewire the flood of panic). Like a positive mantra of sorts. What are some of your self-affirmations?
:hug: Thinking of you!

Personally I quote a lot of Harvard for research but some of my most favorite acquaintances came from MIT. Computer people rock there too!

 

[Anarchy]

It's probably worth seeing if we've got any members here who are studying or recently studied at those universities, to see what their experience of the support services was like.

The area around the English city of Cambridge is seriously flat, the nearest natural climbing crags (and good caves) are about 150km away in Derbyshire. Don't know if that makes any difference to you.

 

[Deleted member 27340]

What are you currently doing to balance your self care and school? I ask in interest.

Starting off the day with a shower, then spending the two hours I've got before leaving relaxing. I (try to, doesn't work) manage anxiety with different grounding techniques, such as counting five of each colour in the rainbow in correct order, feeling various kinds of texture, breathing, alternating some sort of pressure left/right/left/right (same concept as EMDR) etc. At home I try to get time for self care and things I enjoy after school as well, but my concentration is so messed up I usually don't have time for anything else than a short break before going to sleep... I don't even have time to climb anymore :(

body, age, hormones, biology, bone development, needed exercise, rest and nutrition

Yes... I've got most the knowledge and understanding needed, it's just actually doing it, and finding time to do it in my full-packed schedule of school... I could (and want to) run in the mornings, but I'm a zombie for two hours in the morning. About food, I will await doing drastic changes until I get some results from the diagnostic process I'm currently going through for digestive problems.

I do the rubber band thing a lot... my arm usually looks like a white (I'm really pale haha) and red tiger because of it, but the skin never tears. I also fidget with my necklace, earring and hair, and my mantra in PTSD-attacking-and-overtaking-my-entire-brain-capacity-moments is usually 'get out'. It's short and I just started saying it some time ago... it's also in English, which will switch my entire thought process over to English and that's a good thing because negative associations are not as related to English words as their Norwegian cousins. The word 'rape', for instance. I CAN use it in English, it won't drive me nuts, but even trying to say or write the Norwegian translation can set me off.

Thank you so much, @Recovery4Me , you're a wonderful person :hug:

MIT is amazing, it'd be so fun studying there. Downside is it's in the states, and I don't really wanna live in the states (upside is everyone can have a gun, it seems, yey). Studying is also more expensive over there, I think, and harder from a practical point of view because there are many co-operations between universities inside Europe... If I'm first going to the states, I'd go to MIT and not Harvard. If I can get in, of course. Cambridge is in the UK, yey, and would be awesome. 1 in 5 get accepted. And that it's flat is OK, I could always find an indoor hall, if I'd have time for exercise along with studies.

It's probably worth seeing if we've got any members here who are studying or recently studied at those universities, to see what their experience of the support services was like.

Yeah, that could be a good idea... Not sure how to look, though, haha.