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.
in[Tuition]: Decision Making & Stress Recovery
How does stress impact our ability to make decisions? What are the best techniques to have a productive, relaxing winter break post exam?
in[Tuition]: 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 will […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eating Cheap
How to Survive the time after reading break and before the tax return
