article<\/a> for Johns Hopkins Medicine, pediatrician Michael Crocetto says that teens need nine to nine and a half hours of sleep each night. \u201cTeenagers are going through a second developmental stage of cognitive maturation.\u201d He explains that sleep is essential to the developing brain and physical growth spurts. The insufficient amount of sleep that teens are getting is a result of the amount of work that seniors are receiving at school, coupled with work as a result of the college application process. <\/p>\n\n\n\nSince the school year began, seniors reported an increase in stress among the whole grade. Feldman commented, \u201cEveryone is beyond stressed, everyone is crying. People don\u2019t put effort into anything besides their college work.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Newman shared her similar feelings, \u201cI think that everyone (or every senior) is stressed right now because we\u2019re approaching the first application deadline and the school work is stressful. The college work is stressful, but personally, what is most stressful for me is how so many things are unknown.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While seniors have been undergoing this anxiety-provoking and arduous process, they have described support systems like guidance from friends, families, teachers and college counselors as helpful. One senior shared that the college counselors are trying their best to support seniors. \u201cI think that it\u2019s been harder to get in touch with some of the[m], but the new ones (counselors) have been a game-changer. They are super quick to respond and help, which I really appreciate.\u201d However, the same senior claimed that their teachers have not eased their homework as much as they had hoped. As a result, weekly workloads have been overwhelming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked if the staff and teachers at school have been supportive and understanding of their current situation, one senior responded, \u201cI think some of them, but not that much.\u201d They later followed up with, \u201cCloser to the deadline, it feels like they can sense we feel stressed. But earlier in the semester, it felt like they didn\u2019t understand and we had to go-go-go and somehow do it all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another senior had a contrasting response, feeling as though their teachers have been extremely compassionate, \u201cI feel that a lot of my teachers have been very understanding and have tried to make the school year as easy as possible for us.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most Fieldston seniors, when asked how they felt about having to balance college admissions work on top of their regular school work, described it as a laborious and tedious process. Newman remarked, \u201cI find it difficult to balance on top of school work because at the end of the day, after I do my homework and study for my tests, and I want to go to sleep, I can\u2019t, because I have to work on my supplements.\u201d For many, nightly work is already difficult to manage with extracurriculars, clubs, assignments, quizzes, tests and more. Imagine having a huge workload of assignments in addition to that? Another senior agreed that it is difficult to balance the work. \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt in my mind. It is nearly impossible and I pray <\/em>for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nAlthough this period was stressful for the seniors, they moved through it and enjoyed a wonderful, carefree spring. That\u2019s important to know. In the meantime, let\u2019s make sure to encourage and look out for our current Fieldston seniors!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you checked in with your senior friends from the Class of 2025 lately? Did you ask them how they feel now, having passed through the college process? Perhaps they can provide some useful advice to our Senior Class of 2026? 2025 alums endured a stressful period balancing applying to colleges while maintaining all of their school work as Fieldston students. I consulted several Fieldston seniors last year in the midst of the experience on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":11948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[347,318],"tags":[],"coauthors":[677],"class_list":["post-11947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-16-at-2.20.58-PM-e1755368513430.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11949,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions\/11949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11947"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}