The post-vacation syndrome (综合症) affects the majority of students.
Symptoms can last a few days, a week, or up to 15 days. Here are some tips that will help you manage it.
Ease into your schedule
After a long vacation, it is necessary to plan the schedule. The ideal is to fulfill your schedule 100%, but you must be realistic: be flexible during the first weeks and do not arrange your schedule too tight.
Start with small goals
Starting with small tasks will allow you to achieve small objectives and gain satisfaction with what has been completed. Always, now more than ever, it's important to break down big goals into small daily or weekly goals to motivate you to keep going.
Make your space free from distractions
Rearrange your study area, put it in order, and avoid wasting hours on mobile phones. Remember that, after a distraction, it takes us an average of 25 minutes to refocus on what we were doing.
Maintain leisure activities
Experts recommend not to return suddenly to studies but to do it a few days before to adapt schedules, routines and even diet. During the first days, it will also help you to maintain some leisure activities.
Rest to be more productive
It is likely that, during your vacations, you have slept in a disorderly way: some days little and other days more than 12 hours. To get back into the routine, you need to get back to sleep in an orderly and sufficient way. Sleeping 8 hours a day will help you improve your attention and concentration and consolidate (巩固) the knowledge acquired during the day.
A. Stop yourself from being distracted by any noise.
B. Your mind and body need time to adjust back to the routine.
C. It's time for you to avoid being distracted during your study time.
D. Sport, for example, will help reduce stress, and release muscle and mental tension.
E. We must accept that the holidays are over and face the new semester with optimism.
F. One way to adapt is to go to bed earlier and progressively advance the wake-up time.
G. Its most common symptoms are psychological discomfort and difficulty concentrating.
