i just watched a video of a 102 year old woman casting her vote for our first major party female nominee. this woman was born without the right to vote, and here she is voting for a female president. all of a sudden, i’m crying in a coffee shop. i have tried very hard to… Continue reading i’m with her.
As midterm season is coming to a close and the stress of finals is just beginning, the air on campus is thick with stress. It surrounds us, pushes us, defines us. But in the university community, there is a whole different element. I’m not entirely sure when the college sphere of the academic world took on an obsession… Continue reading More of the Same
Stop comparing yourself to others. I realize this is easier said than done. It’s incredibly hard to walk down the street and see somebody with the natural hair you’ve spent three years dying yours to mimic, or sit across someone who can, and will, eat twice as much as you without gaining any weight.… Continue reading 7 Self Love Practices
Falling subject to the isolation inevitably created by being a quarter system student actually still in school in June, it has become evident that people are starting to fall apart. In order to keep a positive outlook, I’ve decided to catalogue some of the things I see in the final week of spring quarter (like… Continue reading Summing Up Spring Quarter
Use a planner. Write out your days. Putting things in writing helps you remember them better, as well as giving you something to turn to when you feel yourself freaking out. Wake up earlier. The longer your days, the more productive! But more importantly, spending a long, early morning to yourself is a blissful time… Continue reading Ways to Cope with Stress as an Anxious College Student
At a quarter system school, things are moving extremely quickly. There is so much to learn in so little time, the stress mounts consistently from the first homework assignment on day one of class (yeah, there’s no such thing as a syllabus day). However, with the immense amount of both sickness and mental health struggles,… Continue reading Mental vs Physical
A basic Saturday night in college is said to consist of a few things: loud music, good company, and cheap alcohol. A night of trying on four different outfits, walking to a house party too many blocks away from home, bad lighting, and drinking out of red solo cups (or the occasional wine bottle). However,… Continue reading Drunkorexia
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