This week, I’m going to begin tackling self-care during exam times. I know everyone with a laptop and/or a brain has opinions on how to keep yourself taken care of during stressful academic events. I also know that, had I thought about doing so, I would’ve either gorged myself on…
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Self-Exploration: Art Within Self-Help Space
How should we tackle art within the context of self-care or self-help or the art we create for ourselves rather than the world? Art – more specifically, written art – within my coursework is frequently alluded to less as a self-edification practice specifically because we are not focused on the creation of…
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AFE: Person tries cleaning email inbox one time, thwarted by Moodle updates
Self-help articles and the like online suggest that cleaning one’s email inbox assists in better mental health. Reporting to you live from A Student’s Dorm Room, I can confirm that this may very well be true – so long as your email inbox isn’t your student email. The student, who…
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AFE: Self-help tip – Flee
Rather than randomly blather about my own intricacies like some kind of narcissist, I am here to report that there is a new practice in self-help that gives universally drastic improvements to one’s mental health. This practice checks off all the bullet points on your conventional self-help checklist, including exercise…
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Self-Exploration: Generational Anxiety
I’ve gone to the last two William Jewell College CUAt the Movies nights in a row. For me, that’s huge progress. My intrusive thoughts fixate heavily on death, and the occasions wherein people have shot up movie theaters in our country fueled my anxiety. Before getting help, I had panic…
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Self-Exploration: Self-reflection is complicated
Considering this column is about self-exploration, it’s probably ironically perfect that I have no idea how to articulate or offer advice for listening to oneself. Nothing, at least, beyond the obvious. My therapist advises me to wait and see, to let things surface when they surface. However, I get caught…
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Art club provides outlet for artists on campus, addresses void in curricula
Sitting down with Becca Saffier, the founder of Art Club at William Jewell College, I find there’s more warmth to the new art club than I expected. Although helped by two unnamed Oxbridge students currently studying at Oxford this year, Saffier is the one who runs the club. “More people…
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Self-Exploration: Conversion fever
One of the things I’ve left by the wayside in my wanderings back into religion is the conversion obsession. Of all the things I’ve left behind from my very religious childhood, this is one that has evolved in particularly interesting ways. I return to religion now with the understanding that…
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Self-Exploration: Scaling my food issues
Since I started at William Jewell College, I’ve obsessed over my weight. Maybe the word obsessed is too strong, maybe it isn’t strong enough. I’m not certain, though I think it is important to examine this. Compared with other people, regardless of gender, I think we are all too aware…
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