Ye Seong Kim's freshman year at UCLA was so stressful that she considered dropping out and attending a community college until she was better prepared.
"After struggling and studying so hard, it seemed like it wasn't paying off and I wasn't getting the grades," said Kim, 21. "I wasn't enjoying the subjects and I was thinking maybe this isn't what I want. It made me wonder why I was here."
The biochemistry major overcame those anxieties and has entered her fourth year at the Westwood campus. But the questions she hears now as an advisor for new students resonate deeply: Will I be homesick? How will I make new friends? What if I ask a dumb question in class?
Those fear-inducing uncertainties are why UCLA and colleges and universities around the country increasingly look to boost not just academics, but the mind, body and soul of students who report unprecedented levels of stress and depression.
[For more of this story, written by Carla Rivera, go to http://www.latimes.com/local/e...-20150930-story.html]
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