Julia Cuttone
Burnout comes in all different forms. It is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity.
At Baruch College, a lot of students, faculty and staff are dealing with these feelings of burnout on a daily basis. With midterms coming to an end, students having to balance school, work, and life, it gets to be a lot. Why are so many people getting burnt out? When is it time for people to take a break? Why do people feel that they take on so much?
Individuals are experiencing this from class, work, sports, or just from life in general. Sometimes things just pile up and get to be too much.
My plan is to speak with one student who goes to class and work, a faculty member, and a student-athlete, three different areas of the school. I want to see how their forms of burnout come in different areas, but how they are more common than one may think. My goal of this project is to follow around these people for a day to show why and how burnout is a real thing.
My other goal is to speak to a psychology professor about burnout and have them explain the effects it has on individuals.