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·      Who- Michelle North 

·      What- Stress and Time Management

·      When-Ongoing

·      Where- High Point University

·      Why- With Midterms here, people are getting stressed and she handles stress really well

News Values:Timeliness

Type of Lede: anecdotal, descriptive

Michelle North has to schedule time to spend with her boyfriend.

Michelle North (or Meesh, to her friends), a junior from New Jersey, is one amazing person. Michelle is one busy student with about 100 different things to do each day.  Her day is scheduled almost down to the minute, including when she will spend time with her boyfriend of two years.

“I try to devote at least an hour a day to spend with Chris, I guess.  But some days are more and some are less” North explains how she has a healthy relationship with everything else in her life.

Every week, Michelle has many different responsibilities on the High Point University campus.  She is a double major in business administration and Spanish, taking 17 credits, tutoring six people (sometimes more than once a week), holds office hours for finance, manager and head lifeguard at the Millis pool, a member of the club soccer team, a member of Alpha Chi Omega, the intermural and alumnae chair for Alpha Chi and her relationship with Chris.

Broken down into hours each week, she spends about: eight to ten hours tutoring, eight hours at the Millis pool, three hours at soccer practice, four hours at the soccer game, an average of five hours for

Michelle and her boyfriend Chris

Alpha Chi, 17 hours of class, seven hours for Chris, and then sleep and homework.

“Sometimes I wonder how I do it myself.  It’s hard and really stressful sometimes but I take each day one at a time.”  Meesh reflects on her crazy schedule.

During her freshman year, Michelle was asked to start tutoring math and Spanish. Now, she mostly tutors business calculus and finance.  She is never at home with time on her hands, she is always busy.

“Meesh is never home! People always are asking if she’s home and I keep telling them that she’s never home.  It’s kind of weird to live with somebody like that, but I love her and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”  Emma Barnett, Michelle’s roommate and sorority sister has known Michelle since their freshman year when they lived next to each other.

How does Michelle handle all of the stress in her life? Each morning she plans out her day, basically every hour she knows what she has to get done.  She has done it this way from the very beginning.

“I started really using my agenda my freshman year.  I write down all my school work and any long term projects I have so I can start them early and not get stressed.”  Michelle explained her way of staying organized and not stressed is to not let things pile up.

Michelle has recently be accepted into Delta Mu Delta, the Business Honor Society and she is a Junior Marshal, so she is in the top 10 percent of her class. 

She plans on continuing her life exactly the way it is now.  “You can’t let yourself get stressed over school because you’re going to do fine no matter what.  You need to value every friendship you have.”  That’s advice we all could use at one point in our life.