In her book, The Gifts of Imperfection, researcher and storyteller Brené Brown writes about the importance of cultivating rest and play, and mentions the emphasis in today’s culture on “exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth.”
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Time. Time is the only way to get over a relationship. Sure you can try to cut corners here and there, but it's not until time has past and you've processed everything accordingly does anyone truly move on from a relationship.
But as long as we believe that sustainability is something abstract that happens in a set of policies disconnected from our personal and collective actions, we will not be able to bring on the changes that are necessary.
This next Senate meeting will take place on October 19, 2016 at 6 p.m. in IKBLC 182 (Victoria Lecture Theatre). Senate is open for anyone to attend if you’re ever interested in academic affairs or meeting Santa Ono.
My tactic when I was first here was just to not think about my family — and it was totally working until about a week ago, when I first Skyped with my mom and 14-year-old sister. I immediately started crying and couldn’t say exactly why.
Look, I’m not about to go out and say that UBC is lacking. I’m just saying we don’t have something Harvard, Stanford and Columbia all have. I know it’s been on your mind, so I’ll say what you’re already thinking — a kink club.
One of the biggest worries I had leaving for this exchange was regarding the type of people I’d meet here. Besides one other UBC student whom I had only met once prior to leaving, I knew not a single soul living in Cape Town.
If you still find yourself facing difficulties, it may be time to seek out professional help. As scary as it sounds to ask for help and open up, have faith that you will receive help. Trust me, the kindness of strangers will never cease to amaze you.
“I got airlifted from Wreck beach for alcohol poisoning. I had never had a drink before that night so I am pretty hesitant to drink again. I know my parents are going to kill me once the bill comes. Please help me!”
I’m excited to discover more about my classes and the school system here as I continue to learn. I’m less excited that the online platform the school uses is the same as Connect, but oh well. You can’t win them all.
“There are moments when you think that you are an adult, but ultimately that moment is very short-lived once you realize that you actually rely on other people and that there are things that baffle you that shouldn't.”
Winters claims that the whole anti-porn movement stems from the work of Gary Wilson and Marnia Robinson. Neither of them has a strong background in psychology and many of their claims have to do with the effects of addiction upon the brain.
“Looking around the Great Hall of the Nest filled with roughly 40 organizers and attendees at Tuesday afternoon’s Sexual Assault Policy information session, you could have counted the number of men in attendance on one hand.”
Laserfiche — the AMS’s recently implemented archiving software — is an ongoing project that Council has been discussing for about two years and it's meant to make AMS documents more accessible to the student body at large.
A few years ago, I had the not-so-shocking realization that my social media habits were, indeed, fueling procrastination and lowering my productivity levels. Thus, I made the decision to delete all but one of my social media accounts.