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The Mental Health University podcast aims to provide a shared experience of navigating college hurdles. Each episode discusses different stressors, with FOMO (fear of missing out) being the topic today. The host emphasizes that FOMO is universal in college and offers advice on managing it. They highlight the importance of attitude and finding the good in every situation. It's also important to listen to oneself, balance going out, and not change for others. The host suggests visualizing plans and being open to new experiences. They recommend setting one solid plan for the weekend and allowing the rest to be spontaneous. Finding friends with a similar attitude and shared interests is crucial for navigating FOMO. Lastly, understanding how to recharge one's social battery and prioritizing mental health is essential. It's okay to switch between being an introvert or extrovert and friends should be supportive. Hi, and welcome to Mental Health University podcast. Before we get started, I just want everybody to take a deep breath, give yourself credit. You know, you made a really big effort to be here, and I'm so excited to take on this new journey with you. Both of us are doing this for the first time, and I just think that the entire idea of this podcast is the whole idea of a shared experience and getting through college hurdles that we all experience together. So, each episode I'm going to be pulling a topic from a raffle drum full of every type of stressor you can think of in college. You know, since it's really a balancing act, each episode will include a surprise topic, and I will randomly pick from the raffle drum a different stressor and kind of discuss how those two go together, because, you know, I think it just represents the idea that in college you're really piling so many different things on top. So, I'm going to pick today. Let me go over and see. OK, perfect. FOMO. The whole idea of going out and navigating the party scene, staying in and sort of finding your friends. You know, before I want to really get into this, I want everybody to understand that every single college has a different going out scene and every single college has different factors, you know, location, and size of school that play a role. So, this looks a little different for everybody, but I think it's very universal to experience a little bit of FOMO sometimes, fear of missing out for those who don't know. You know, I think I just saw a recent TikTok. I think it was Lexi Hidalgo who does podcasts as well, and she said, you cannot be everywhere always and you cannot be everyone to everybody. And I think that that just really brings up a really good point about in college. There's a million options of not just going out, weekend plans. It's everything. It's majors. It's activities after class. It's everything. It's class options. So, I think when you, everybody sort of has to learn this skill early on and really learn themselves to avoid navigating these struggles that people face. I'm really happy that this was the topic that I chose today because I think it just does a really good job representing these parts of college. You know, I think the one thing, we can talk about weekend plans first, but I think the one thing is that there will always be points of disappointment. There will be nights where you were like, why did I go tonight? And there will be nights where you're just, you either got rejected from somewhere, you weren't with your favorite people, you got into a situation that you didn't want to be in. And I think it's all comes down to attitude and realizing that there are so many more nights where you're like, I'm so happy that I went. I met this new person. And I think the more you start changing your attitude, the more that you get to really see the good parts in every single situation. With that being said, I think over your time in college, you sort of figure out more of what you want to be like doing, what your groove is. The freshman year, we'll talk about that in a whole different episode. But that's really about like finding your people. So you might be forced to do different things. And I think it's important to listen to yourself always. You know, college is really a balancing act. Don't overdo going out. Don't underdo it because these nights go by really quickly. But I think overall, just find out how you enjoy spending your weekends and don't change for others. So I think a few pieces of advice are really important. I think the first one is just really listening to yourself and what you need. Think internally. Really, what I try to do sometimes is try to physically close your eyes and imagine where you'll be in the next few hours. If you see yourself at home watching a movie, cuddle up on your couch, stay home. But if you are on the fence, you're kind of seeing yourself in a social gathering. You think that your mood might change over the next few minutes. Just just go. Just try it. And I think when you're deciding, I think you should always try to be open to just going. Like that should always be your first thing, because college is about being in unknown situations and figuring out. New situations from those, which is the beautiful part of it. I think next piece of advice, restrict yourself from thinking about plans too far in advance. Set one solid plan for the weekend. That's the rule. And then let the rest set into place. You know, I think when you over plan yourself, then it feels like, oh, I have to do these things where if you set one thing to look forward to, then the rest of the weekend will just be spontaneous and fun and you can relax if you need to. We're going to talk more about this in another episode, but find people who have fun wherever the night ends up. It's important to find people that have things in common with you, the people that like to do shared interests with you. But I think more importantly, it's about the people that share the same attitude as you. You know, people that can make fun out of every event and that going to the grocery store feels like an activity with them. So I think that we'll talk more about that in another episode because that has a million different things to say about it. But that's really important about navigating FOMO. My last big piece of advice is if you are feeling stressed, which always, always happens in college. This is a Mental Health University podcast. You need to learn yourself and what feels right for you. Figure out what recharges your social battery. I think this comes back to being an introvert and extrovert. Take a quiz if you need to. You need to see if being in the bar scene or whatever, social gathering, being in a dorm with a bunch of people, if that's recharging your social battery. And that's what's making you feel good about the stress ahead of you and easing yourself. You should do that. You should lean towards that. But if eating ice cream and watching a movie is going to fix that feeling of a bad mental health day, that's so important to know about yourself ahead of time. And both are OK. If at one phase in your life, you're one or the other, that's OK to switch it up. And it's OK. And your friends are supposed to be there to understand that that can happen. And they can be there along with you.