When Your Major Starts Feeling Like Your Identity
A major is supposed to describe what you study. Somewhere along the way, it can start describing who you think you are allowed…
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Mental Health
42 articles exploring this subject, from Project Semicolon and chapter contributors.
Mental Health Awareness Week Is Not a Mental Health Strategy
Posters, panels and green ribbons can start conversations. A campus mental health strategy has to change what students can actually reach, expect and…
What a Healthier Campus Drinking Culture Could Actually Look Like
A healthier drinking culture is not one where everyone suddenly makes the same choice about alcohol. It is one where safety, consent and…
How to Build Belonging for Students Who Never Find “Their People”
Not everyone finds a perfect friend group, club or dorm family. Belonging can be built through smaller, repeated connections that do not require…
What First-Generation Students Carry That Other People May Not See
First-generation students may be learning college while also translating it for themselves and their families. The pressure is often structural, not evidence that…
College Doesn’t Have to Be the Best Years of Your Life to Matter
College can be meaningful without being magical. You are allowed to have lonely semesters, change direction, make ordinary memories and still have a…
Why Pulling All-Nighters Can Wreck More Than Your Grade
The all-nighter is treated like a weird academic rite of passage. Your brain, unfortunately, did not sign the tradition agreement. Sleep loss can…
Eating Disorders Can Hide Inside “Healthy” Campus Culture
College wellness culture can make harmful eating and exercise patterns look disciplined, clean or aspirational. Eating disorders do not have one body type,…
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.…
How to Check on a Friend Without Becoming Their Crisis Plan
Being a good friend does not require becoming someone’s 24-hour therapist, emergency service and reason to stay alive. Peer support works better when…
What to Do After a Friend Is Hospitalized
When a friend comes home or back to campus after a mental health hospitalization, you do not need the perfect speech. You need…
The Friend Everyone Leans On Needs Someone Too
Some students become the unofficial therapist of the group because they listen well and rarely ask for anything. Being dependable should not require…
How Student Organizations Can Make Mental Health Part of Campus Culture
Mental health culture is shaped in club meetings, team chats, rehearsals, labs and student organizations long before someone reaches a counseling office.
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…
When Going Home for Break Doesn’t Feel Like Going Home
Campus empties out and everyone starts talking about going home as if home means the same thing to everybody. It doesn’t. Break can…
Moving Away From Home Can Feel Like Freedom and Loss at the Same Time
Leaving home can be the thing you wanted and still hurt. Independence and homesickness are not opposites, and missing your old life does…
Commuter Students Can Feel Invisible Too
When campus is somewhere you drive to, attend class and leave, it can be easy to feel like college life is happening to…
Transfer Shock Is Real
Transferring can look like a clean academic move on paper and feel like social whiplash in real life. You may know how college…