On Wednesday, 6 May 2020, Planning Complex Cities students met to discuss how to best tackle stress caused by their upcoming graduation project assessment, under current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic circumstances. The Smart Break session resulted in an impressive documentation of the impact of the health crisis on graduation students and a letter that was sent to all who were assumed to have capacities to help temper stress. Several points that were addressed in this letter found attention in recent policies by the department of Urbanism and Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment in the meantime.