The Marriott School of Business and BYU Mental Health Center partnered together to create Stress Less Week, an event designed to help students relax.
To help students combat the stress of midterms, early nightfall and the cold weather, the departments transformed the usually-bustling atrium of the Tanner Building into a relaxing, stress-free zone.
Nick Sorenson, a Marriott Mental Health Association employee, said he finds this event incredibly valuable.
"Stress Less Week is a week in which students can come and visit our little booth here (and) explore the different senses that help individuals to destress," he said.
Stress Less Week taught students to unwind through their senses. There were booths to help them destress through sound, smell, sight, touch and taste.
"For me, when I'm feeling really stressed it helps me to destress when I’m in tune with what my body actually needs," Sorenson said.
Business students and others around BYU campus stopped to take a break and be "stress free in three."
Howie Stubbs, an accounting student, said that the booths were so popular during class breaks that he had to wait in a line.
"I just parked here and sat until the atrium cleared out and then once I got to do it, I really liked it," he said.
Stubbs said he enjoyed the event so much that he wanted to get his family involved.
"My wife was home with my baby," Stubbs said. "I grabbed them and brought them here, and it was fun."
BYU also offers students other resources to manage their stress through the Counseling and Psychological Services department.