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A Chronic Optimist on: Mental Health Identities

I suffer from severe anxiety. Tight chest, hair tugging, sleepless night, and nail biting until you bleed severe anxiety. Why am I telling you this? Humans love categorizing things, and these labels are obviously necessary for many items, products, and […]

Arts & Culture

A Chronic Optimist on: Mental Health Identities

by Rylie Moscato
Published January 25, 2017
Cockadoodles: An Adult Coloring Book

  Cockadoodles is a “colouring book full of wieners. It’s full of things to colour, as well as colouring book activities like a wordsearch, maze, circle the differences, and more. It’s just like a classic colouring book but with page […]

Arts & Culture

Cockadoodles: An Adult Coloring Book

by Rylie Moscato
Published January 25, 2017
Trump Takeover

By the time this is published Trump will have been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. Perhaps there is already Nuclear War, perhaps he has surprised us and solved child poverty. Regardless, awestruck leftists need […]

News

Trump Takeover

by Rylie Moscato
Published January 24, 2017
Counting Calories in Canada

Apparently, Ontario has the same New Year’s Resolution as your roommate: to shed a few pounds. As of January 1, 2017, Ontario’s new Healthy Menu Choices Act, 2015, requires that all food service providers within the province with 20 or […]

News

Counting Calories in Canada

by Rylie Moscato
Published January 24, 2017
Sun–buzz–rise

As he stared into her eyes, the silence seemed to creep up onto them. It hung there, sitting with them. Buzz. Buzz. Her phone. Her parents must have walked into her room where she was supposed to be sleeping. She […]

Creative

Sun–buzz–rise

by athcreative
Published January 23, 2017
Irreconcilable Circumstance

Out of focus save for a lock of chestnut hair, my father wholly in shadow and his hands around my chest. My mother watching but even then consumed by her own darkness. It’s my second birthday, and my father is […]

Creative

Irreconcilable Circumstance

by athcreative
Published January 23, 2017
How Can I Know What Love Is

Love is one of the earliest concepts I remember being introduced to. It was the unbreakable connection between family. You could fight all you wanted and the love stayed strong. I never understood that love; it never seemed as strong […]

Creative

How Can I Know What Love Is

by athcreative
Published January 23, 2017
Cosmopolitan Love

My darling, with her clothes littered on a floor painted orange. The windows did not come prepared. Cactus on a stool, and a stack of our vinyls (we bought them in a far away fair). The nights are force with […]

Creative

Cosmopolitan Love

by athcreative
Published January 23, 2017
Unaware and Undiagnosed: Common Symptoms of PCOS

After years of intense pain, dramatic weight gain, and missed periods, I sat in the doctor’s office for what seemed like the billionth time trying to explain my symptoms to her. “It sounds like you have polycystic ovarian syndrome,” she […]

Sports & Wellness

Unaware and Undiagnosed: Common Symptoms of PCOS

by athopinions
Published January 23, 2017
Wax On, Wax Off. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Hair removal is something that many men and women, myself included, strive to perfect. Whether it is through the drawn blood of shaving, expensive laser treatment, or painful wax pulling, we are all after that chic bald look. Some do […]

Sports & Wellness

Wax On, Wax Off. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

by athopinions
Published January 23, 2017
Unpopular Opinion: Controversial Team Names Aren’t All That Controversial

The controversy of team names has been a hot topic in the world of sports as of late, and all the attention being brought to the topic has me thinking: are these team names controversial, or are activists just bringing […]

Sports & Wellness

Unpopular Opinion: Controversial Team Names Aren’t All That Controversial

by athopinions
Published January 23, 2017
Social Media in an Age of Awareness

“Why use Social Media? Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.” – Seth Godin Karen* (name changed), sat at her computer scrolling through her Facebook feed and watching Netflix when she […]

Arts & Culture

Social Media in an Age of Awareness

by athopinions
Published January 23, 2017
Front and Center: The Portrayal of Women in the Media

During the summer of 2016, the Olympic Games took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although nearly half of the 19 world records broken that year were by women, the female athletes were treated to headlines like (famously), “‘Wife of […]

Opinions

Front and Center: The Portrayal of Women in the Media

by athopinions
Published January 23, 2017
Acadia Global Brigades is a Farce: Leave it to Professionals

Humans are inherently selfish. The only reason students volunteer is to have something nice to look at on their résumés in the hopes that future employers will think that they are well-rounded individuals and should be hired. That statement alone […]

Opinions

Acadia Global Brigades is a Farce: Leave it to Professionals

by athopinions
Published January 23, 2017
Your Resolution: The Psychology of Habit Formation

“New Year, new me,” or so the expression goes. You’ve made a resolution and this time you’ve sworn to see it through. But as the new semester starts and the assignments start rolling in, that today’s the day mentality starts […]

Science

Your Resolution: The Psychology of Habit Formation

by athopinions
Published January 23, 2017

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