Senior relief
Margie Thorp ’11 works to make Harvard a less stressful place. As a student mental health liaison (SMHL), Thorp helps her classmates navigate the University’s network of resources for students under stress. When the demands of her senior year started to bear down on her last fall, however, Thorp realized that she needed to take some of her own advice and make an appointment at Harvard’s Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC). “In the fall, I found that I was just thinking about plans for graduation all the time,” she says. “It got in the way of doing my normal work, so I made an appointment at the bureau. They said it might be helpful to make lists about the future — what kind of work I’d be doing, where I’d be living, applying to medical school — all the unknowns that hadn’t fallen into place at that time. After a couple...