Word on the street is that the MBA program is stressful. So we set out Mythbuster-style to find out just how stressed people are these days. We found that the vast majority of BYU MBAs (70%) report having medium to high stress on average, with only 3% reporting very high stress and everyone else claiming low or very low stress levels.
It’s possible our data was skewed by the likelihood that MBAs with very high stress are less likely to take non-essential surveys. Then again, that same group is equally unlikely to be reading this, hence a mutual nose-thumbing is in order.
MBAs employ a variety of methods to manage stress. Aside from the usual suspects of exercise, sleep, socializing, and “couch-potato-ing” (actually recorded in our responses), 20% of respondents reported using food (both the good and the bad kinds) to lower stress and 26% claimed to use Jedi mind tricks to counter stress. Among our favorites in the ‘other’ category are: calling my mom, praying often, eliminating cause (we’re interested to know how), getting out of Provo, and hanging out with people more stressed to see how ridiculous they are.
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