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Monthly Archives: May 2019
Knowing Your Limits
When everyone wants you to do everything, and it almost seems silly to say no, how do you stop yourself from burning out?
National Reconciliation Week: Gurrumul
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, better known as Gurrumul or Dr G Yunupingu, was an Indigenous Australian musician of Yolngu, Gumal and Gumatj heritage. Born blind, Gurrumul taught himself to play a guitar held upside down. He was incredibly shy and knew little English, but these things did not define his life, nor his career. He rose to incredible […]
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Weird Ways to Get Motivated
Recently I’ve found myself getting into a bad routine, where I don’t do much study during the day (apart from attending lectures and tutorials), and then leave everything until the weekend. I don’t like doing this, as it means that I don’t have any free time on the weekend and end up stressed before the […]
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How to Make a New Country Feel Like Home
Moving to a new country can be uncomfortable and difficult. Suddenly, you are uprooted from your home country and in a whole new country trying to find your bearings. This immense amount of change can shake anyone to the core, resulting in homesickness, anxiety, and even depression. In order to cope with this change and […]
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A Note-Taking Crisis
I recently experienced a note-taking crisis mid-way through a lecture. ‘A crisis?’ you say, and yes, it was indeed a crisis.
Lecturers later in the degree
Is it just me, or does anyone else find that the closer you get to finishing your degree, the more obscure and hard to understand your lecturers become?
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Out There: The Eye
It’s strange that you can feel like something’s watching you, like there’s a thing in the shadows in your peripheral vision that’s glaring into you, and you can just feel it. It’s like being in a room and having every eye turn to you and being so conscious of the gaze of everyone watching.
National Reconciliation Week: How Do I be a Good Ally?
A primary goal of this year’s National Reconciliation Week (NRW) campaign is to encourage more genuine and candid understandings between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The question I ask, then, is how do I actually go about supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals and communities in […]
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Your Major as a Rom-Com
What rom-com should you watch, based on your major? *disclaimer: okay, some of these aren’t technically rom-coms, but while they might fit better into categories like action or drama, they all contain a romantic story line, so they count, right? Right.*
