College sure has changed over the years.

The LA Times reported.

Colleges offer massages, snacks and more to help stressed-out freshmen prepare for their first finals

Just before winter break, Kristina Reed began to feel a bit off. She developed a sore throat and cough. The Pomona College freshman was fatigued and lethargic. She had all the signs of flu.

Then she realized it was no coincidence that she was about to take her first college finals.

“My stress levels were pretty high and I think it was related,” said Reed, 18, a neuroscience major. “It’s a big jump up from high school, where they expect you to memorize information and repeat it back. In college it’s a lot more analysis, they demand more from you and especially the level of writing is a lot higher.”

As final exams reach their peak this week across the country, freshmen like Reed are coping with the anxiety and sleepless nights before their first college-level end of term tests. Getting through finals can be grueling for even the most experienced upper-division student. With exams counting for a large portion of the final grade, doing well is a high-stakes proposition.

Freshmen are surrounded by hundreds of other students just as stressed. With tensions ratcheted, some students can go off the rails, such as an extreme example a few years ago when a 20-year-old Harvard student called in a false bomb threat to avoid an exam.