Let's Talk About Loneliness
Loneliness is a problem that exists at the intersections of mental and physical health. Chronic loneliness has the same health outcomes as...
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‘Quarantine-versary’: A Year of Lockdown
A look back at what we've all survived.
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How Are Children Handling the Pandemic? My Experience Working in Childcare in 2020
We’ve now officially hit a full year of lockdown. College students have spent two academic years adjusting to online or hybrid learning,...
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7 COVID-19 Vaccine Analogies That Just Make Sense
Welcome to the final phase of COVID-19, my friends. (At least we hope it’s the final phase… it is. It has to be. I’m manifesting it.) Ever...
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Why It's Okay to Feel Anxious About Lockdown Ending
Sharing a birthday cake after someone has blown out the candles. Giving your friend a taste of your cocktail at a bar. Hugging a relative...
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My Experience Living Through Covid-19 in the USA and the UK
We are coming up onto a year of this pandemic and I am realizing that I have spent eight months living in lockdown. Here is what I have...
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Why Do We Romanticize the First Lockdown?
Ah yes ... the good old days of dalgona coffee, drive-by parades, and Supalonely by Beene playing on repeat.
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The Start of the Summer of Freedom
Excited for Summer? Saray Imlach imagines the Durham student roadmap out of lockdown.
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A Pandemic Through Netflix's Eyes
Grace Marshall rounds up Netflix's biggest shows during the pandemic and why they will always have a special place in our hearts.
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Fun and Creative Ways to Spend Your Second Spring Break in Lockdown
Given how trying this pandemic has been, it seems pretty hard to believe a year has elapsed since the world officially shut down. On one...
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The Rise (and Fall) of the Influencer: How to Escape the Grip of Instagram Personalities on Your Feed
Unfollowing the Kardashians on Instagram changed my life. I know how dramatic that sounds - just hear me out. Pre-pandemic, my social media...
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Spring Break Crowds Cause Miami Beach to Declare a State of Emergency
The city of Miami Beach is currently in a state of emergency due to concerns of large crowds leading to an increase in COVID-19 cases...
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Send Coffee, Please #9: Looming Lifting of Lockdown
This week, Mel talks about the imminent ‘lifting of lockdown’, the inevitable impatience and sudden increase of work in the build-up to it...
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8 Creative Ways To Stay Connected With Friends and Family Online
Check out these fun activities!
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How Quarantine Helped my FOMO
How the coronavirus pandemic helped me reevaluate my FOMO
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4 Hobbies I Experimented With During Lockdown
With more free time than ever on my hands this past year, along with the necessity to stay inside, I quite quickly realised that I would...
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Quarantine Frustrations: A Year in Review
Finding myself in quarantine a year after the initial lockdown, I realize how much stronger I have become.
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Post-Lockdown Fashion and Beauty- My Predictions
“What’s everyone wearing on June 21st then?” Seems to be the question on everyone’s lips at the moment, after Boris Johnson announced the...
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Four reasons why lockdown is the perfect time to learn a new language!
Even though it's been one full year since the COVID-19 pandemic turned our lives upside down, we are still in lockdown in many places. So,...
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Covid-19: How to View the Experience in a Positive Light
This year has undoubtedly opened up a new set of personal challenges for everyone in the world. Waking up knowing you won’t leave the four...
