Youth struggles.

My one new (Chinese-American) (college student) coworker is definitely having his struggles.

The other day, he was saying how tired he was from doubles, and he requests his only days off to be Tuesdays and Thursdays because that's when he has class, but he wanted to leave early since he has some big class project due.

He said if he works half a day, he can get stuff done, but if he pulls a double, he doesn't know if he'll be able to do anything afterwards.

From the way he talked, he made it sound like he never actually has a day when he plans to be fully off, and he just radiates tiredness and stress, even apart from him having referred once or twice a bit ago to his mental health.

He also said he wants to move out to maybe Colorado when he can since he's into rockclimbing, but what with rents being what they are, he doesn't know when or if that will happen.

He also said rockclimbing is very good for him, since it's something to focus on and you're outside and you're active and you're getting in touch with nature.

I can't imagine having even one student like that in a classroom, let alone many or a majority; the stress and anxiety is just palpable, and it bleeds over onto you. No wonder I've been hearing from a number of professor friends that students nowadays are just a mess.