

Mental Health and Me
Freshman, 19, striving to understand the issue better. In my daily life, I tend to forget others that suffer from severe mental illness...


Pushed Apart
From the age of 2, Michelle had been my best friend. We were troublemakers, Rugrats, and truly inseparable. One of my first memories with...
Is Anyone Out There?
Another weekend, another list of items I have to complete. I look at my To-Do List on a Post-It Note, and I begin to assign my tasks in...
A Day in the Life of a College Student
“College is the greatest time of your life”. Bullshit. I have watched my friends self-destruct. I have seen my classmates fall into...


This Too Shall Pass
Sophomore Biomedical Engineering major. This depression, anxiety, sadness, or desperation that you are feeling, it will go away. Your...


Struggling with Stress
In the reality I lived in, the fate of my future was quantitatively determined by the number of A’s on my transcript. With this mindset,...


The Spoken Word is Healing
Lauren [noun]: Diagnosis: Dysthymia Treatment: Psychotherapy Outlet: spoken word poetry Dysthymia [noun]: persistent depressive disorder...


Just Another Student Athlete Who Has It Made
Freshman Women's Soccer Player, 19 Being a student athlete at a Division I college is the life. No really it is; I have the chance to...


4.0
Chemistry Major, 19 I was diagnosed with OCD and anxiety this past summer. When I first went to my therapist, I pretty much already knew...


My Fall
Architecture major, 21. Early praise and achievement didn’t equip me for failure. Over several months one fall, my self-criticism and...