Even without final exams looming, Andrea Rivera is all too familiar with stress.
Rivera, a 23-year-old journalism major, is taking classes at not one but two schools: San Joaquin Delta College in her hometown of Stockton, California, and an hour away at Sacramento State. She’s paying her way by working full time as a restaurant manager.
Finals make everything more hectic. “My stress just goes completely up,” she said, tallying her end-of-semester workload that includes a group project for Spanish, a social media package for journalism and a five-part project for geology…