This is my last article for this column. I’m graduating from William Jewell College in less than two weeks, and from there I’ll be moving on to my studies at seminary. My undergraduate graduation feels very different than my high school one. Hardly any of my high school friends and…
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Self-Exploration: My love letter to pursuing seminary
I’ve written an angry version of this article, months ago. I’ve thought a lot about this ongoing conversation I’ve involved myself in between my queerness and my religion. I’ve been angry, I’ve been jubilant with justice, I’ve been anxious. I’ve engaged with so many made-up bigoted people in my head…
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Top 10: Best forms of exam related anxiety
Because who doesn’t love getting MORE instructions and/or opinions on finals week, here’s a top ten of my favorite forms of exam-anxiety. For extra spice, I’ve added a few that are more exam-depression than exam-anxiety, but who cares? Tomay-toe, toh-mah-toe. 1 – My Final is on a Day and at…
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Self-Exploration: How to deal with end of the semester stress
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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