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How to Create a Final Exam Study Schedule
Hey readers!December is just around the corner, which can be both an exciting and stressful time for students. Final exams are definitely a source of stress as we get closer and closer to the end of the semester. Sometimes, finals season can feel like an impossible...
How to Make Friends: A Students Step-by-Step Guide on Making Friends on Campus
Hey readers! We all know how hard being a student can be sometimes. It’s an endless struggle trying to juggle studying, finances, and staying healthy, while also going through so many new transitions in your life. But one of the biggest challenges of being a student...
Why Not Being Okay is Okay: Thoughts on Self-Compassion and Understanding
Hey Readers! When it comes to mental health, a lot of the mainstream discourse surrounding the topic will highlight solutions that serve as a “quick fix”. Have you ever seen online articles that suggest self-care practices such as drinking herbal tea or eating comfort...
A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Coming to university from a small town
I was unstoppable. The kind of girl who was always busy: getting straight A's, volunteering, working, and making art. Between the scholarships I racked up, the proud smiles of my friends and family, and the encouraging words of my teachers, I felt a sense...
5 Ways to Stop Getting Depressed by the News
You wake up in the morning, check Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, your email, and every one of them seems to bear headlines of tornadoes, shootings, and other catastrophes. You click some of the headlines and ignore others. “Too sad,” you think. It’s not that...
You Can Do It!
Hi everyone! I hope you're reading this on a beautiful sunny day. Victoria has relatively mild winters but somedays, when I haven't seen the sun in what feels like weeks and my feet are wet from the rain it can be hard to find to motivation to do anything,...
The Many Faces of Depression
Hey readers! Today I want to talk about depression and some of the more uncommon symptoms associated with it. So often, when we talk about depression, we talk about the symptoms of sadness associated with it. While this is a very common and real experience for a lot...
How to Find Your Quiet Place
Hello readers! I hope you're doing well 🙂 Today, I want to share with you an amazing little project I recently discovered which inspired me to write about the importance of finding your quiet place. Hope you enjoy the read. Present day existence is, for most...
Dwelling on Dreams: When Your Ideal Self Gets in the Way
"Our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. It is determined by the ratio of our actualities to our supposed potentialities; a fraction of which our pretensions are the denominator and the numerator our success:...
Why Self-Care Isn’t Always Pretty
Hey folks! What comes to mind when you think when you think of self- care? Most students are no strangers to reading about the concept, but I’ve been seeing a lot of #selfcare articles featuring 8-dollar bath bombs, manicures, and exotic herbal teas....