Food Insecurity Is a Mental Health Issue Too
It is hard to concentrate on a lecture when part of your brain is calculating whether the groceries need to last until Friday.…
THE BLOG / TOPICS
Depression
12 articles exploring this subject, from Project Semicolon and chapter contributors.
Dating, Breakups and Trying to Make It to Class Anyway
Breakups can take over your brain while the academic calendar remains aggressively uninterested. Heartbreak is real, and unfortunately the syllabus still thinks Tuesday…
What Campus Counseling Can Do, and What Happens When It’s Full
Campus counseling can be a good front door into mental health care, but every center has limits. Knowing what it can offer, what…
When Taking a Leave of Absence Is the Healthiest Choice
A leave of absence can feel like falling off the timeline everyone else seems to be following. Sometimes it is not quitting. Sometimes…
Coming Back After a Mental Health Leave
Returning after a mental health leave can feel less like “going back” and more like walking into a life that kept moving without…
When Your Medication Routine Collides With College Life
College is excellent at destroying routines: different wake times, late nights, weekends away, new pharmacies and a dining schedule apparently designed by dice.…
Lonely in a Crowd: Why College Can Feel So Isolating
College can put thousands of people within walking distance and still leave someone wondering who they could call if they were having a…
The Pressure to Make These the Best Years of Your Life
“Best years of your life” sounds cheerful until you are having a terrible Tuesday and wondering whether you are wasting an experience you…
Failing a Class Without Deciding You’re a Failure
A failing grade can have real consequences. It still does not contain enough information to tell you what kind of person you are.
Everyone Looks Like They’re Handling College Better Than You
College makes success very public and struggle strangely private. It can look like everybody else received instructions you somehow missed. They did not.
How to Ask a Professor for Help Before Everything Falls Apart
The ideal time to email a professor is before three missing assignments have become an archaeological site. You do not need to disclose…
You Are Not Your Roommate’s Therapist
Living six feet from someone can make you the first person to notice when they are struggling. It does not make you their…