Stressed out UBC grad students ease frustrations with ‘smash therapy’

Ever consciousness similar the stress of beingness is truthful overmuch you conscionable privation to smash something?

Graduate students successful UBC’s chemistry section were fixed the accidental to bash conscionable that successful a de-stressing store that proved to beryllium a smashing occurrence connected Friday.

Students had the accidental to process the accent of exams, classes and their idiosyncratic lives by shattering unsalvageable solid laboratory equipment.

“What americium I gonna beryllium reasoning about? I deliberation I’ll beryllium reasoning astir immoderate of my experiments that aren’t moving arsenic I’d anticipation they’d work,” pupil Keighan Gemmell told Global News.

Students donned information glasses earlier taking their aggression retired portion by piece.

Their targets were aged and damaged laboratory cogwheel similar chipped trial tubes oregon different specialty glassware that, erstwhile undamaged, is worthy thousands of dollars.

The schoolhouse said the much stressed a pupil was, the much costly the solid they got to break.

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“You tin tally into students present that are stressed retired from exams, penning a thesis, stressed retired from getting acceptable for the exam, and they’re walking astir similar zombies, and they’re precise worried,” said UBC chemistry technological glassblower Brian Ditchburn.

The chemistry section says it repairs oregon recycles much than 90 per cent of the solid utilized successful its labs.