The UCR Library is committed to creating a supportive atmosphere for our students, as exams can breed a lot of stress.

That's why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief (FWSR) event series at the end of every quarter. The next FWSR will take place at the end of fall quarter 2023. 

Need stress-reducing activities now?
Our FWSR committee has curated the below list of activities and services available remotely through online platforms that you can enjoy all year long! 

Click through the category tabs below to see all the options.

San Diego Animal Cams

Live animal cams at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and San Diego Zoo.

Watch the Animals
Explore.org Livecams

Explore is a multimedia organization that documents leaders around the world who have devoted their lives to extraordinary causes. Both educational and inspirational, explore creates a portal into the soul of humanity by championing the selfless acts of others.

Watch Videos
Earthcam Animal Cams

EarthCam is the global leader in providing webcam content, technology and services. Founded in 1996, EarthCam exists to encourage exploration, foster discovery and connect people through innovative live camera technology.

Watch Videos
Aquarium of the Pacific Webcams

Visit Aquarium of the Pacific's exhibits virtually! Check in on our animals with live webcams placed inside some of the Aquarium’s exhibits.

Watch Videos
Monterey Bay Aquarium Jelly Cam

Mellow out to the hypnotic drifting of the jellies at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Watch Videos
Smithsonian's National Zoo Webcams

Enjoy the webcam view of different animals at the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.

Watch Videos
Hansel and Gretel

Listen to the tale of Hansel and Gretel, read by Andrew, with an introduction by Jason, both members of the UCR Library's Finals Week Stress Relief committee.

Listen in
The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Listen to the tale of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, read by Andrew, with an introduction by Jason, both members of the UCR Library's Finals Week Stress Relief committee.

Listen in
The Three Brothers

Listen to the tale of The Three Brothers, read by Andrew, with an introduction by Jason, both members of the UCR Library's Finals Week Stress Relief committee.

Listen in
The Frog Prince

Listen to the tale of The Frog Prince, read by Andrew, with an introduction by Jason, both members of the UCR Library's Finals Week Stress Relief committee.

Listen in
Doctor Know-it-All

Listen to the tale of Doctor Know-it-All, read by Andrew, with an introduction by Jason, both members of the UCR Library's Finals Week Stress Relief committee.

Listen in
Storyline Online

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy®-nominated and award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.

 
Listen in
UCLA Guided Meditations

Free guided meditations recorded by UCLA MARC's Director of Mindfulness Education, Diana Winston.

Mind Well
Omega Institute Channel

Omega is a nonprofit, mission-driven, and donor-supported educational organization. For more than 40 years we’ve been the nation's leading center for holistic studies – helping people and organizations integrate personal growth and social change, moving beyond ‘the way it is’ toward ‘the way it can be’.

Experience Omega
Relaxing Sounds Playlist

A curated video playlist with relaxing sounds, including rainforest sounds, gentle rain, and low-fi Hip Hop.

Relax and Listen
Virtual Study Spaces

A curated playlist with ambient sounds to create the sense of studying in a public place.

Enjoy the Ambience
ASMR Playlist

(ASMR) is a calming, pleasurable feeling often accompanied by a tingling sensation. This tingle is said to originate in a person's head and spread to the spine (and sometimes the limbs) in response to stimulation. The stimuli that trigger ASMR vary from person to person.

Feel the Tingles
Queendom

Scientifically developed tests and fun quizzes to help you learn more about yourself.

Learn about yourself
People Magazine

People is a weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news, human-interest stories, and gossip.

Browse the Magazine
Coloring Books

Color to your heart's content.

Choose a Coloring Book
Midi.city

Midi.city is a free online synthesizer, which has over 128 different instruments including: Pianos, Saxophones, Drums, Trumpets, Synth Pads, Guitar, Violins and all other instruments defined in the General Midi specification.

Make Music
Virtual Piano

Virtual Piano enables you to play the piano instantly through your computer keyboard, mobile or tablet. You don’t need to download or install anything.

Play Piano
Teleparty

Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party) is a new way to watch TV with your friends online. Teleparty synchronizes video playback and adds group chat to Netflix, Disney, Hulu and HBO.

Binge Watch Together
Gartic Phone

The online Telephone Game! Play the popular game for free now.

Play Telephone
Tetris

Play a game of Tetris.

Play Tetris
Sudoku

Play Sudoku.

Play Sudoku
Jigsaw Planet

Choose from several puzzle themes. Play collaboratively or individually.

 
Do Puzzles
Arkadium

Play arcade-style video games.

Play video games
QuickDraw with Google

Help teach your neural network to recognize doodling by adding your drawings to the world’s largest doodling data set, shared publicly to help with machine learning research.

Doodle with Google
Sherlock Holmes Escape Room

This escape room can be completed individually, as a group, or as a competition between friends. See how accurately you can make it out and solve the case!

The game is afoot
Alice In Wonderland Escape Room

Try out this Wonderland-themed Digital Escape Room! It is based on the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.

Curioser and curioser
Asteroid Collision

The year is 2135 and Earth has made lots of progress in exploring our solar system. You are living in space on the space station Freedom 2, a base for an asteroid mining company. The company accidentally mined too deep and a big chunk of asteroid is headed straight for Freedom 2. You have 45 minutes to get into your secret lab and save the space station.

Save the space station
Sky Apprentice Digital Escape Room

Since we are all stuck at home for a while, let’s “escape the room” together on this spy themed mission where we take you around the world solving clues!

Visit Sky Apprentice
Romeo & Juliet Escape Room

Juliet's parents won’t make this easy and they want you to demonstrate you are enough smart to deserve their intelligent daughter. Will you be able to do it?

Prove your love
Oscar's Stolen Oscar

Holy Shark! Something is very fishy at the National Aquarium. Our resident Hollywood Star, Oscar, is missing his...Oscar! I guess not everyone was a "fin" of his work.

Find Oscar's Oscar
Hogwarts Digital Escape Room

Try this Harry Potter themed Digital Escape Room! You can complete this escape room as a group or as individual. You can compete against friends and try it multiple times. Just make sure you have fun!

Visit Hogwarts
Minecraft Escape Room

Try this Minecraft themed Digital Escape Room! You can complete this escape room as a family, individual, or against friends.

Visit Minecraft
Escape: The Midnight Express

You won't need anything to play this other than:

A TIMER OR CLOCK TO KEEP TRACK OF YOUR TIME

A PENCIL AND SOME PAPER

Visit The Midnight Express
UCR Video Resources

UCR has a large multimedia collection both on CD/DVD and online streaming services, including Kanopy and Swank, which provide access to many popular films from major production companies.

Stream Videos
Rejuvenate Playlist

Music selections curated by your Finals Week Stress Relief committee members.

Rejuvenate Playlist
One Music School

Learn to play the Ukulele with the One Music School channel. New videos posted Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Make Music
National Geographic Channel

Inspiring people to care about the planet! National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible.

Watch NatGeo
Epic Gardening Channel

Learn urban gardening so you can grow fresh food year round - no matter where you live! We also cover the cool stuff going on in the hydroponics, aquaponics and gardening communities.

Go Garden
Home Made Modern

HomeMade-Modern.com is an online design source that shares design ideas with hopes of inspiring people to make more of the things they own.

Make Your Stuff
HGTV Handmade

HGTV Handmade releases four new videos every week on crafting at home using what we have around the house. Watch for new DIY ideas and crafty inspiration.

Make it your own
Bob Ross Channel

The official YouTube channel of "The Joy of Painting" and Bob Ross. Watch and paint along with every episode of The Joy of Painting! Happy painting!

Paint with Bob
Cooking Playlist

A video playlist filled with cooking hacks, easy recipes, and tasty treats, curated by the Finals Week Stress Relief committee members.

Bon Appetit
National Center For Civil & Human Rights

 

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights believes in justice and dignity for all – and the power of people to make this real. We inspire visitors and our other audiences with immersive exhibitions, dynamic events and conversations, and engagement and education/training programs. Experience the virtual tour! The National Center for Civil and Human Rights invites you to enjoy the rich history and contemporary relevance of our exhibits.

Take a tour
Street Art with Google

Explore the stories behind the art. Virtual tours of cities around the globe.

See some art
MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand

 

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo is a private, nonprofit museum founded by Brazilian businessman Assis Chateaubriand, in 1947, as Brazil’s first modern museum.

Visit MASP
Musée d’Orsay, Paris

The history of the museum, of its building is quite unusual. In the centre of Paris on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, the museum was installed in the former Orsay railway station, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900.

Visit the Musée
Van Gogh Museum

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses the largest collection of artworks by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) in the world. The permanent collection includes over 200 paintings by Vincent van Gogh, 500 drawings and more than 750 letters.

Visit Van Gogh
British Museum

An interactive online tour of the Museum of the World, presented by the British Museum.

Visit the Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

Visit The Guggenheim
National Museum of Natural History

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile device.

Visit the Natural History Museum
National Women's History Museum

Online exhibits include Outdoor Adventurers, Standing up for Change, The Women of NASA, Women in STEM, Fashioning Yourself!, Legislating History, Game Changers, Harriet Tubman, and many more.

Visit Herstory
Coronavirus Resources & Updates

News and updates related to COVID-19 / the Coronavirus at UC Riverside, curated by the department of Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S).

COVID updates
R'Pantry

R'Pantry is managed by The Well and provides emergency non-perishable food, personal hygiene, household care and childcare items for students experiencing food insecurity.

Visit R'Pantry
Counseling & Psychological Services

UCR's Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) is here to help, offering services via TeleMental Health (phone and secure videoconferencing).

Visit CAPS
Tutorial Assistance Program (TAP)

Tutorial Assistance Program (TAP) through the Academic Resource Center (ARC) provides free tutoring in a variety of subjects and disciplines.

Visit the ARC
Student Recreation Center (SRC)

The Student Recreation Center (SRC) offers a healthy option to living active and meaningful lives while working on achieving their degrees.

Visit the SRC
Student Health Services

In addition to providing primary care and treating UCR students for injuries, UCR Student Health Services offers counseling, dental and vision care, and pharmacy services.

Student Health Services
The WELL

The Well provides education, trainings, resources, and programming for students in a variety of health and wellness topic areas, through a network of peer educators, mentors, and professionals.

Visit the WELL
Student Success Initiatives

The Provost Office supports a number of initiatives to improve the experience of our students and to ensure their success.

Success Tips
Events at UCR

Events and workshops offered by various departments and offices at UC Riverside.

Find Events at UCR