Students complete the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS, scored 4–20), which measures active, meaning-focused coping with difficulties, then collect scores from junior and senior classmates to run an independent samples t-test. The lab examines whether active resilient coping strategies develop measurably between junior and senior year. Seniors, having faced more high-stakes challenges and having spent more time developing coping repertoires, might score higher. Alternatively, junior years inte