{"id":20417,"date":"2020-12-16T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20417"},"modified":"2020-12-15T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:41:12","slug":"student-editors-letter-looking-ahead-to-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/12\/16\/student-editors-letter-looking-ahead-to-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Editor’s Letter: Looking ahead to 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s sunny as I write this, on Monday\u2014at least there\u2019s that. Of course, by the time anyone reads this on Wednesday, it probably won\u2019t be. That\u2019s Victoria (in December, no less) for you. This time of year is hard, partially because we don\u2019t get enough sunlight, which is one of the main natural ways to consume vitamin D. A vitamin D deficiency is linked to all kinds of health issues\u2014increased rates of cancer, diabetes, and depression, to name a few, but I\u2019m not a walking link to Web MD, and I certainly don\u2019t think I\u2019m qualified to have an actual educated opinion on any of the above health issues. But I can share my own experience.<\/p>\n

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Goodbye, 2020: a fallen tree outside Richmond House on Camosun’s Lansdowne campus earlier this year (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The shorter days are like anything else: they impact some people more than others. For me, it\u2019s annihilating. This time of year, every day I have to run 30 minutes, take 2,000 units of vitamin D, and sit under a Godforsaken sunlight lamp for an hour just to feel normal. But I\u2019m not complaining. I love my time that I need to take for me, and I\u2019ll never feel bad for taking it.<\/p>\n

To be honest, as much as I work to be able to take the time, my life is also structured in a way that allows it. I have no kids, no particularly hectic life. If I want to take this time in, say, five years, I don\u2019t know when I\u2019ll possibly have time to sleep. I\u2019ll have to be up at 2 am, running around under a massive lamp. And let\u2019s just come out and acknowledge this, shall we? Being around the average age of most college students means that I see the world in a certain way. I\u2018m slightly terrified of that world viewpoint having to change before I\u2019m ready for it to, but, in a nutshell, that\u2019s what an education is\u2014learning to choose how to think and recognizing that you\u2019re part of a bigger picture, a bigger ideal, and a bigger world.<\/p>\n

With the final weeks of the year in full swing\u2014a year to remember but a year that no one wants to live through again\u2014ask yourself how you want to go through the world in \u201921 in a way that will make you, and that world, a better place to be. Within yourself is, after all, the place you most frequently are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s sunny as I write this, on Monday\u2014at least there\u2019s that. Of course, by the time anyone reads this on Wednesday, it probably won\u2019t be. That\u2019s Victoria (in December, no less) for you. This time of year is hard, partially because we don\u2019t get enough sunlight, which is one of the main natural ways to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20418,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417\/revisions\/20418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}