College comes with new relationships, new experiences, independence, and stress.

Sure, there's football games, parties and late nights with friends, but the overarching part of college comes from endless hours of studying. In fact, stress isn't solely from studying anymore. Students are experiencing stress from the endless amount of papers that are thrown their way. It is coming from professors who seem to be making their lives as hard as possible. Stress is coming from the fear of the future; the overwhelming amount assignments due in one week.

A recent study from Neumann University, states one in twelve college students makes a suicide plan.

If we take a college of 20,000 students, 1,666 students have made a suicide plan. That may seem like a small number compared to the 20,000 but think of 1,666 people taking their lives in one school year.

So, what or why is this happening?

Studies say changes in lifestyle causes stress. Your major, behavior, academic stress and more are leading to stress flowing through your body. Every day students encounter obstacles. Whether the obstacle is noticeable or not is another story. As students progress through their day, they become more and more tired.

A student shouldn't dread 8 a.m. classes like they're the most horrible punishment ever, but for some reason we do.

Most high schools start around 8 o' clock, so why does an 8 A.M. seem like the end of the world? Well, it's because of stress. Students stay up late to finish papers or homework. Some don't sleep whatsoever. Students are being bombarded with loads of work. While college is a stage of preparing for adulthood, students shouldn't be praying for a class to be canceled or getting sick due to the stress they are under.

When a professor tells a student they "shouldn't be stressed" that seems to make it worse.

Students are facing anxiety. They're experiencing panic attacks because they feel like failures. They feel like they'll never succeed because they have been told "this is easy" through different words.

If a student proclaims that they are stressed, help them.

If you tell them they shouldn't be, you have made it worse. You have added another layer of anxiety over them. Students have the right to be stressed. College is not a walk in the park. Classes are draining. Homework leaves you up all night. You find yourself in the library more times than you ever have before. You have days where you don't eat until 8 p.m. or possibly later because you are so busy.

College kids truly are stressed.

So, don't tell them they're not or they have no need to be stressed. We are trying re best to get through this thing we call "adulting" and it's not that easy. All we're asking for is someone to believe us when we say we're stressed instead of tearing us down even more.