How does stress affect a college student's productivity? Does it inhibit the student with emotional turmoil or motivate them and send them into work mode? Personally, as a college student who experiences large amounts of stress, anxiety reduces my productivity. It gives me a sense of doom in my chest and makes me replace hours of efficient studying with worry. This question interests me because if the effects of stress can be demonstrated and identified, then we can work on a solution or remedy to the problem. If a college student is under a high degree of stress, their work will be reduced in quality and quantity. Under stress, the student will spend more time panicking than performing the task. The more time wasted on the assignment, the more the student has to rush to finish it. Rushing will result in lower quality of performance and work. To test my hypothesis, I will randomly select 6 students each, from 10 colleges in the United States. The different students will be randomly selected through a lottery. In total there will be 60 participants. The 60 selected university students will again be randomly divided by lottery into three different testing groups. Each group will be given the same test, the control, but each group will be assigned conditions that vary in "stress," the independent variable. The quality and quantity of performance on the given test, the dependent variable, will determine the effects that stress has on college students' productivity and quality of work. I will operationalize quality by the quantity of correct answers, and I will operationalize quantity by the number of questions answered. There will be three levels of the independent variable, high stress, medium stress and th...... middle of the paper...... Participants will need to have taken the SAT two years prior to the experiment, in order to ensure that the subjects they all have the same memory of the test. If the results of my study demonstrate that my hypothesis (college students under a high degree of stress reduces student work in quality and quantity) is correct, then the more stress the student is under causes them to produce worse work. . Increased stress causes the student to waste time worrying about how little time they have available, which wastes even more time causing them to rush into work at the expense of the quality of their work. These findings would greatly benefit further studies on how to help students reduce stress. Identifying barriers to the job performance of our future leaders, once exploited, should be of concern and identifying the problem is the first step to solving it.