Art by Peau ProtesanoIf you're like most Pepperdine students, you're under a fair amount of stress right now. You may be on the second round of midterms, preparing for finals, or even stressing about jobs and graduation. It's completely understandable if you're dying of anxiety. However, large amounts of stress can be damaging to your health, as well as your grades, and it's … [Read more...] about Don’t Let Stress Get the Best of You
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Grab an Ax
You’re not going to make it. You’ve taken on too many units, too many extracurriculars, finals are less than a month away and you’re almost out of meal points. Yes, finals are coming. Just as certain as death, taxes and Convocation. They are coming. But these sentiments aren’t completely true, are they? I have no idea how many meal points you have. Maybe … [Read more...] about Grab an Ax
These are the Best Years of Your Life
As we approach the end of the school year, a panic starts to ensue. The most obvious is for seniors — in three or four short weeks, they truly enter the “real” world. For most, this means 9 to 5 jobs, cubicles, professional dress codes every day and withdrawal of their parents’ financial support. *Shudder.* Thank God I’m not a senior. But wait — I’m a junior. My own reality … [Read more...] about These are the Best Years of Your Life
Take a Break
Have you ever gotten to the point where you are completely overwhelmed with work, classes, extracurriculars or whatever family situation is happening? Me too. What I have come to realize is that the more things piled on your plate, the less motivation you actually have to complete them. It feels as if the pile will fall if you even begin to touch it; you stand no chance … [Read more...] about Take a Break
Nature’s Gravity
Those in silence want noise. Those in noise want silence. Peace makes a fool of those rooted in phenomena. It is not the fastness of life that bothers me. It is the listless, maniacal infinitude of it all. Life, to us, is presented as a long string of moral palpitations and emotional highs, and we are now in the time of the semester when this narrative is manifested for many … [Read more...] about Nature’s Gravity
