Exam Period Meditation Space
Exams are stressful. Visit our quiet space to re-group thoughts, meditate, and pray as needed.
What is a Food Coma and How to Avoid it!
Learn about our relationship with food and how food comas could impact our energy level.
Must-Reads for Summer 2022
Find your perfect warm weather read by checking out our staff’s summer book recommendations!
Ways to Make Your Own Food in First Year Residences
Learn easy tips and tricks for making your own food in a first year residence.
Back on the Road: How to Practice Self-Care on Your Commute
Discover ways to relax and rest on your commutes in the second part of our Back on the Road series.
Food to Cure Homesickness
Learn some tips and tricks to help you turn your food cravings from home into a reality, including finding ingredients and restaurants.
Must-Reads for Reading Week 2022
Our Reading Week must-reads list has returned for 2022! Find your next page-turner by checking out our staff’s book recommendations.
Engineering Your Life: Designing Better Health
Insights from engineering professors and students on applying engineering concepts and ideas to improve your overall health, diet, and sleep.
How to Have Self-Compassion in Academics
Read about how Alex learned to have self-compassion and how it can improve your academic experience.
How to Find Bliss with Your New Roommates
A complete guide on how to get along with your new roommates.
Must-Reads for Reading Week 2021
Back by popular demand, a must-reads list for Reading Week 2021!
Humans of IKB: Student Staff Edition
Everyone encounters challenges at university – you’re not alone! Get to know our student staff team, and their advice for how to overcome common university concerns.
Adjusting to a New Place
Justin shares his tips on how to adjust to a new place, based on his personal experience.
Communicating Your Needs Toolkit
Learn a 3-step approach to expressing your personal needs in this interactive learning tool!
Spaces as Time Machines: How to Unlock the Benefits of Nostalgia
Does nostalgia always have to make you feel sad? Check out Annika’s post to learn how to unlock the benefits of nostalgia.
Humans of IKB
Everyone encounters challenges at university – you’re not alone! Get to know our staff team, and their advice for how to overcome common university concerns.
How to build confidence as an introverted minority
Learn how an introverted minority student builds her confidence during her time at UBC.
A Guide to Spring Cleaning and Why You Should Do It (Hint: It’s Good For You)
Refresh and reset for the new season with some spring cleaning tips!
How Digital Tattoo can help you learn more about your online life
Learn more about the Digital Tattoo project and how it can support a more informed use of social media.
What questions about social media haven’t we asked ourselves?
There are a lot of questions to ask ourselves when it comes to social media use – check out Annika’s post to start reflecting!
A Positive Approach to Facing University
By revealing our imperfections, recognizing our fragileness, we are made human and complete.
Enhance Daily Productivity and Motivation with Exercise
Struggling to get work done with online classes? Learn how to implement exercising to enhance your productivity!
The Danger of Reference Points
We compare ourselves to others constantly, often to our own detriment. Chris sheds some light on how reference points make silver medal winners and heavy social media users unhappy.
All You Need for March: Finishing the Term Strong!
Check out our recommended resources and events for finishing up the semester!
Must-Reads for Reading Week
Itching for something to read or just plain bored? We’ve curated a list of all of our favorite books for you to enjoy over reading week!
Beware, Not All Advice Is Good Advice
As we’re entering the beginning of our winter semester, you may find yourself on the receiving end of a lot of people’s well intended advice. Click here to find out why I’m telling you not to listen to them.
3 Tips for Eating Cheaper without Cooking Every Meal
If you have been having a hard time budgeting your food allowance, Minori shares a few tips and recipes that will give you the best bang for your buck!
They’re Going to Find Out!
Impostor Syndrome is a common phrase that’s flung around these days. What exactly is it and what can we do to manage it?
Phone Phobia: Tips for Calling for When You Just Can’t Text Instead
Do you ever get nervous about making an unavoidable call on the phone? Here are some tips to help ease your phone phobia!
Self Confidence for When You Are in a Slump
As a student, you have a number of different skill sets that make you particularly appealing to employers. Read further to find out what they are!
Mental Health and Balancing Student Work Life
In this post we will focus on mental health and students’ work life, focusing in particular on part time jobs students have while studying.
Mindfulness Meditation as a tool for Mental Health and Academic Success.
Do you wonder why we have negative or positive thoughts? Meditators believe it stems from the formation of attachments to our thoughts and behaviors.
Mental Health and Students’ Academic Lives
Everyone has mental health. Many of us struggle with mental health problems and some of us will experience mental illness. As a student, your mental health matters.
Mental Health and Students’ Social Lives
We looked at mental health and its effects on academics in the first blog. This time we will look at mental health and its effects on one’s social life.
Sleep, Exercise and Balance: Part III
Balancing schoolwork with personal life or family relationships could even improve your academic performance and boost your personal wellbeing.
Sleep, Exercise and Balance: Part II
In Part 2 of this three-part series, we examine the role of exercise and physical activity and their impact on exam scores.
Sleep, Exercise and Balance: Part I
In Part 1 of this three-part series, we explore the importance of sleep on student achievement and well-being.
Decision Making: Does Stress Recovery Exist?
How does stress impact our ability to make decisions? What are the best techniques to have a productive, relaxing winter break post exam?
What’s Your Fix?
It’s 2 a.m. in the morning and you glance at the bottom of your Word document. 1500 words to go in 7 hours, I can do this. But the long day of unengaging classes, standing at work and arguing with your roommate about chores just makes you want to hit the sack. No, I […]
Struggling? Stressed?: Adopting a positive attitude to challenges
Students at UBC are often well-versed with the myriad of resources available on campus. Throw one of us a problem and we can often quickly spit out a resource that we know our peers and ourselves can access: “Feeling sick?” “Go to the doctor?” “Not getting the grade you want in classes?” “Get a tutor.” […]
How to Stay Hungry and Foolish Over the Summer
With classes out, the overall decrease in academic stress can often leave students without any clear sense of purpose. However, it also opens up many new avenues for personal achievement. Whether you’re taking classes, working a job, or immersing yourself in foreign cultures, in the words of the late Steve Jobs, now is the time […]
Is Student Health A Myth?
As the semester draws to a close, stress is heightened more than ever not only because of academic factors but also through our personal lives as well. With all of these stresses, one of the first things to fall through the cracks for a lot of people is their health and well-being. Health covers […]
Living on a Student Budget
Beginning this term, I found myself in a difficult financial situation. I came to Vancouver low on money without working this summer and numerous expenses waiting to be paid. It was a horrible way to start the beginning of a new term. I felt so insecure, that it started to impact me academically. Instead of […]
Summer Fever
When the fall semester ended in May, we were so excited about the prospects of sleeping in till noon, strolling along the sea wall under the daytime sunshine and hanging with friends till late because, hey, summah’s heeeeeeere! But as the summer has progressed, we’ve realized that we need to fill my time with more […]
An Escape from the Summer Term
UBC really has it all – there’s a beach to the left of us, a forest flanking our right side, and we even have our own botanical garden. What you may not know, is that UBC’s botanical garden also offers a walk above the air – among the trees!
