Wellness Resources for Graduate Students
Attending classes, working, and spending time with family and friends can be difficult, but it is manageable. The key is balance! One thing you can do is to work toward a healthy, balanced lifestyle in the areas of emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual wellness. It is important to take care of your wellbeing so you can excel academically, help others, and balance your busy lifestyle. And, you don't have to do this alone, there are many resources at UC San Diego to help you!
LiveWell UC San Diego Resources
LiveWell Balance Test Find out if you are balanced in the 8 dimensions of wellness.
LiveWell UCSD Blog Weekly wellness tips for students.
Promoting Student Wellness If you are a Teaching Assistant, this page will provide you with ideas and resources for promoting wellness in your classroom.
Emotional Wellness
Counseling & Psychological Services
Counseling and Psychological Services provides individual, group, couples, and family psychotherapy to registered undergraduate and graduate students, including students of the Medical School and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Services are free of charge to currently
enrolled students who have paid their registration fees.
Environmental Wellness
UC San Diego Commuting Alternatives
Information about shuttles, carpools, the pedal club, free or reduced bus passes, and other ways to travel in a more environmentally friendly manner.
UCSD students, faculty, staff, and visitors are heartily invited to participate in Walk UCSD. Join us in improving personal health by including a daily walk in your busy routine.
Financial Wellness
It is the mission of the Financial Aid Office to ensure all admitted students can attend UC San Diego, regardless of their financial circumstances.
Intellectual Wellness
The UC San Diego Libraries are composed of nine separate libraries with services and programs designed to support the academic and programmatic pursuits of the UCSD faculty, students and staff.
Occupational Wellness
The Career Services Center exists to help students and alumni of the University of California determine and fulfill their career goals. We offer a wide range of programs and services.
Physical Wellness
Registered UCSD students are invited to participate in recreation classes, weight room and fitness facilities in the Main Gym and RIMAC, Canyonview Aquatic Complex Facilities and the Natatorium. The Recreation Center also has a climbing center, an Outback Adventure program, equipment rentals, a high ropes team-building program called the Challenge Course, a Masters Swim program, as well as many class offerings like yoga, kick boxing and pilates.
Student Health Service provides quality primary medical care, including urgent care and support services such as laboratory, pharmacy, and x-ray. We have primary care physicians who are board certified in Family Medicine or Internal Medicine. Our health promotion and disease prevention programs encourage all students to develop positive health behaviors now and for the future.
Social Wellness
Visit this website for a variety of programs (including Wednesday Workshops) and an event calendar which lists upcoming UCSD events where you can meet new people, learn/try new things, and have fun!
Spiritual Wellness
Center for Ethics and Spirituality
CES works to equip students with critical tools for the development of moral and ethical character. The members provide non-denominational spiritual and secular counseling, and act as referrals to other university services such as psychological and legal services.
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