College Students face a number of pressures, including those related to academic performance, to social activities, and to changes to personal identity. High school may have posed enormous academic pressures in the senior year, but college academics are far more rigorous. For example, course work includes heavy scholastic reading material that will challenge students to work beyond their comfort zone. Reading and writing assignments are more in-depth and demanding than high school level ones. Professors usually expect a lot from their students, who have to keep up with coursework or else risk falling far behind. Furthermore, the college student's workload is heavy and filled with work from a number of different courses in several different subject areas. In addition to the academic pressures, college students also deal with a busy social life filled with extracurricular activities. For instance, the student will probably join a fraternity or sorority to meet new friends. He or she might also join special interest clubs such as those related to their ethnicity, religious orientation, sexual orientation, or political ideology. In college, students learn a lot about themselves as they socialize more and meet new people from diverse backgrounds. The student is pressured to develop his or her own identity in the midst of conflicting social messages. Because of the changes to the student's perspective, a person endures the pressure of a rapidly changing personal identity. The college student usually lives in a dorm room; experiencing independence for the first time can be traumatic at times especially when finances are tight. Moreover, the college student may enter into romantic relationships. Those romantic relationships are fun and exciting, but they also take up large blocks of the student's time. For example, the student might find that their romantic relationship is eating into valuable study time. As a result, the college student may have a hard time getting enough sleep or eating well. The pressures college students face are often heavy; therefore, students need to make sure they stay healthy.