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Is it irresponsible to limit your news intake?

Posted on Jul 23 2021 by Sascha

In this new COVID-19 age, we’re surrounded by a near-constant influx of pandemic-related news. As the situation continues to escalate, we each have to manage how we cope day-to-day, and that might mean limiting the amount of news you ingest. But is it irresponsible to do so?

Gardening in isolation

Posted on Jul 22 2021 by Cooper

Stuck inside? Bored out of your brains? Get gardening!

Disruption during a PhD

Posted on Jul 22 2021 by Ember

I am very lucky to have such supportive supervisors but also to have such encouraging peers amongst my cohort.

Food during lockdown

Posted on Jul 20 2021 by Nicholas

Food during the pandemic has been a topic of much conversation.

Combating uncertainty about the future

Posted on Jul 20 2021 by Ember

Goodbye to the family home

Posted on Jul 12 2021 by Nicholas

My parents have had their home (the house I spent the bulk of my childhood in in Loxton) on the market for almost two years, but it came as an almost complete surprise to get a message from Mum this week informing my and my brother that they had finally sold!

Ph.D. students: they call us dreamers, but we’re the ones who don’t sleep

Posted on Apr 13 2021 by Ember

Trouble sleeping? Maybe we’ve procrastinated for too long and it’s catching up with us and so we have to burn the midnight oil and make a sprint of our writing. Maybe we’ve been going through some emotional hurdles during lockdown and have been finding it difficult to sleep. Maybe you’ve taken some time out of your usual writing schedule to help a friend out. Maybe the imposter syndrome has gotten a strong grip on us and we’re feeling stuck with our writing.

Review: LegoMasters

Posted on Mar 25 2021 by Jesse

So this is very far from an insightful commentary on an obscure piece of cultured television, but it does go well with my last review of competitive reality TV.

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