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Hey Guys!

My name is Maria Pascucci and I am the president and founder of Campus Calm – where students speak out about grades, stress and personal well-being.

I am a full-time writer and entrepreneur who discovered the joy of creating my own success when I stopped trying to prove to the world that I was the best.

Let me explain. A perfectionist through my high school and college years, I’d rather skip an assignment than risk turning in a less-than-perfect paper. After years of denying myself happiness to strive for perfection, I graduated with a 3.92 GPA and fell into a depression. I never once congratulated myself for graduating from college because all I could think about was the next task of trying to prove myself in the real world.

When I was a little girl, I used to write about faraway places and treasured characters but somehow by age 22, writing conjured up nothing but pressure, deadlines and a misguided sense of achievement. I wrote to make the grade - my talent’s worth was reduced to a letter etched in red ink on the top of my paper (and if that letter grade was less than an “A” there was an internal hell to pay).

Somewhere along the way in the past five years since graduation, I ditched my need to be perfect and began focusing on what I WANTED, not what my family, friends and acquaintances in the supermarket thought I should want. Guess what? It was the most liberating thing I’ve ever done - and it paved the way for the success I enjoy today. The only thing I regret is that I can’t go back and help the stressed out student that I was once. I can help others though. I've made it my mission to do just that.

Questions & comments? Visit www.campuscalm.com. I'm thrilled to hear from you!