Stop Stressing Me

摘要

As captain of the junior- varsity volleyball team, first-chair flute in the school orchestra, a top player on the tennis team and an honors student with three hours of homework a night, Andrea Galambos, who was also taking singing and art classes after school, put in 18-hour days. "I never had more than five minutes to sit down and breathe," says Andrea, 16, a junior at Staples High School in Westport, Conn. Some mornings she didn't want to get out of bed because of all the stuff she had to do. She was also still dealing with the loss of her father, who died of cancer in 1997. "I liked being busy, but it got to a point where it was just way too much," she says. It was Andrea's choice to do so many things, says her mother, Sylvia.