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Monthly Archives: September 2019

Meet the Bloggers: Annabelle

Hi everyone! My name is Annabelle, and I am one of the new bloggers joining the What Messes with Your Head? team. I moved to Adelaide to study Media and Journalism from Mount Gambier after finishing school and working as a receptionist in my post-education gap year.

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Patience

I had to wait twenty minutes for my bus this morning. I was sitting there with nothing really to do. I didn’t want to scroll through my phone, and I didn’t have anything to plan out. So, I just sat there and waited. It can be strange to have nothing to be doing, especially when […]

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Meet the Bloggers: Cooper

What messes with my head? So much. Humans are complicated beings, and I’m one of them. There’s a lot of depth to us all, even footballers and politicians. So a bit about me and the student health and well-being blog.

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A Trip to Uraidla

A couple of weekends ago, on an almost sunny day, I took a trip into the hills and visited the small town of Uraidla. Well removed from the hustle and bustle of the more popular towns in the Adelaide Hills, Uraidla is near Cleland Conservation Park and can be accessed by either Greenhill Rd or […]

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Fate, Or Something Like It

I don’t believe in fate, or destiny, or karma. I don’t believe anything happens for a reason, or that anything is ever ‘meant’ to be.

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When to Talk

I sit there silently. Just listening. At first I pay close attention to noticing every small detail and figuring out what’s happening. I look at the speaker and notice the brand of glasses they’re wearing. I track their eye contact. I evaluate the chain of reasoning to what they’re saying. Eventually, I become disengaged in […]

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Brené Brown Quotes for your Postgraduate Hustle

Fad or not, I think that the work Brené Brown has done on vulnerability is interesting and useful. The PhD student journey has been described quite like a roller coaster with many dips and peaks throughout the three years. I am grateful that I have formed really encouraging social and scholarly connections with the other […]

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When Information Overload Causes Anxiety

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the fact that I can access information with a few taps on my phone nowadays. I went to school in the 1990s and the early 2000s, and back in primary school we all still started off with learning the Dewey Decimal Classification system and getting acquainted with the […]

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Is Exercise Really For Everyone?

For a lot of us, the relationship we have with exercise can be, well, complicated and tied to negative ideas about diet culture, body image, shame, and guilt. What’s more, these feelings can be exacerbated by certain environments, like gyms. I go to a gym and have done for years, mostly because I find actually […]

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Free Things To Do in the Mid-Semester Break

With the mid-semester break upon us, and hopefully some beautiful spring weather, here are some ideas to get you away from the books for a bit during the break.

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