Students should take care of their mental and physical health during finals week.

As days grow shorter, temperatures grow colder and the sky becomes a sea of gray, finding motivation to complete schoolwork or get out of bed each morning can seem like a difficult task, especially for students like Daniel Dominick suffering from seasonal affective disorder.

The thing about stress is that it doesn’t typically get better on its own. But when you take care of your mental health, you increase your energy levels and can even reduce the risk of illness.

Finals week is almost upon us and that means sleepovers at the library, unhealthy amounts of coffee and stressful cramming study sessions. It is easy to forget to take a break, but here are some tips to help you out.

Students celebrated the first Self-Care Day of the semester last Tuesday. Students got one Self-Care Day last semester in October. Following a request from Student Government Board President Eric Macadangdang, students were given two Self-Care Days this semester — with the next one on March 24 — after spring break was cancelled.

Pitt could have easily avoided scheduling Pitt Day of Giving and the first self-care day of the semester on the same date

It’s important to check in on others and make them an equal priority to oneself – the two don’t need to be mutually exclusive.

Here are the top 10 things we did on Student Self-Care Day. You can infer for yourself whether or not there was any care involved.

The thought of a student self-care day in a week and a half feels like putting a band-aid on a broken leg.

Plants make for great companions during the COVID-19 pandemic because they offer many social, emotional and physical health benefits, yet plants cannot contract nor spread COVID-19.