Freedom from Addiction: Facing death and shattered mental constructsI’ll never forget West Texas. It was there, in the middle of the desert in the middle of the night, where death suddenly entered my life. I felt my then-boyfriend Cody (not his real name) get out of bed quite suddenly, and although it was still dark, my first thought was that he must be […] Continue Reading |
Hold My Beer, I Lost My Keys: Drunk on deadlinesYou know, when I got the opportunity to start this column and came up with the idea for Hold My Beer, I Lost My Keys, I was over the moon about the thought that any wisdom I’ve accumulated while attempting to walk the tightrope of being a responsible adult and self-assured child with a credit […] Continue Reading |
Freedom from Addiction: Addiction 101Addiction is a strange phenomenon. A person can know to some extent that they are addicted and still find a way to circumvent the problem and continue the behaviour that they know is dysfunctional and harmful without really looking directly at it. It remains just on the periphery of their direct awareness, even though it […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk: Promise to keep the conversation going, okay?It’s shocking to think that 18 months ago, I wrote my first Let’s Talk? column. In some ways it seems like yesterday; in others, it seems like it’s been a lifetime. From Women’s Day to fuckboys, from consent to baking for firemen, from Alabama to questioning the validity of Ross and Rachel, Let’s Talk? has […] Continue Reading |
Health with Tess: Time management for your healthIf I have freshly relearned anything during my time at Camosun, it’s the unshakeable value of time management. It’s one of those lessons I’ve had to keep learning over the years, utilizing strong time-management skills while busy and throwing everything to the wind when my to-do list shrinks. Like most students, I work a lot […] Continue Reading |
First Things First: Keeping the positive attitudeWhen I first had the idea for this column, it was out of pure adrenaline. I think that’s how I made most of my decisions in my first year. I followed through with a lot of my first instincts—sometimes it worked out, sometimes it didn’t. That first-day-of-school anxiety was nothing new to me. The transition […] Continue Reading |
Health with Tess: Maintaining your academic healthLife is unpredictable, and things out of your control can happen during your time studying at Camosun, but this does not have to determine your future opportunities. Grades matter, and they get looked at when you apply for future schooling or even for some jobs. When personal illness, affliction, or family problems arise and they […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk: Re-examining former favouritesThere was a time not so long ago when I was blissfully unaware of how poorly female characters were written in a vast majority of movies. I would hear people complain about how there was a serious lack of strong women getting screen time, and, in my lack of being woke, I didn’t seem to […] Continue Reading |
First Things First: Getting ahead in the new yearNow that class registration is finally here and we’re at the peak of summer, I’m here to tell you how to cheat the system and start being a good student by taking care of things early. You’re probably laughing at me right now: “Studying early? What am I, a nerd?” Okay, rude, but preparing as […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk: Let’s talk about AlabamaAs the writer of a column about women’s issues, one would think that I’d be sitting at my keyboard with bated breath, fingers feverously clicking across the keys as I express my views on everything going on in the southern states right now. But in reality, I’ve been dreading writing a column for this issue. […] Continue Reading |
