[Image-1] Whether it’s your first year at university or you’re a returning student, maintaining good mental health is crucial for a successful academic experience. But navigating the system can be challenging at the best of times. We often end up minimizing our mental health needs because it takes more time and energy to find the […]
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Halifax isn’t so bad, once you get to know it.
[Image-5] Moving across the world to a place you don’t know isn’t the easiest undertaking. Simple tasks that average Haligonians get annoyed with—like seeking an apartment, finding an affordable ride from the airport and knowing how to get cheap, bed-bug free furniture—are even more difficult when you’re trying to organize these things from a Tokyo […]
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Sober sociables isn’t an easy game to play
[Image-1] On a cold Friday night, Nathaniel Crocker sits on an unkempt dorm bed, occasionally changing the song being played on the laptop. As is the unsaid tradition for students all around Halifax, Friday is a night of festivities marked primarily by drinking in dorm rooms. For the 21-year-old Crocker, weekends look a little different. […]
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The realities of dating as a queer minority
[Image-1] Growing up, Mateo Ferguson knew that things wouldn’t be easy for him as a gay black man. He’s part of a minority in a minority, living in a town that can be ignorant and sometimes even hateful of both. The 19-year-old has remained “optimistic,” though. Like many other gay students, he uses Grindr. For […]
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Boutique shopping or bust
[Image-1] 11 Street Boutique The Hydrostone’s only men’s and women’s clothing boutique, this newbie shop carries limited numbers of each piece—look for lines like Cake for Breakfast, MACCS and Muttonhead Apparel. 5649 Hennessy Street Alexa Pope From a home on the World Wide Web to one on the waterfront, this shop is a little bit […]
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Welcome home, Halifax
[Image-5] Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like a student’s apartment. The dreadful homogeny of every new gloomy mid-rise residential complex that’s sprouting up all over the Halifax peninsula just makes the improvisational decor of student living that much more endearing. Whether it’s a six-bedroom flat shared with seven other people, or a […]
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Balancing books and band practice in university
[Image-1] It’s no secret that being a student eats up your time, body and spirit like a hungry piranha. University demands a lot. It’s an all-consuming beast that spits out an exhausted version of yourself who probably just wants to spend any free time playing beer pong or hitting The Dome’s dance floor. The majority […]
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Big mom on campus
[Image-1] The faint circles around Nicoletta Dini’s eyes don’t diminish the glow in her smile as she watches her son run around the playground. His curly hair bobs playfully as he climbs up the slide and sits gingerly at the edge. Dini is a 25-year-old single mother trying to balance her three-year-old son, Luca, with […]
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Time to get angry
[Image-1] Halifax has a lot of great things going for it. It also has more than its fair share of bullshit. Feeling pissed off about the state of the world? You’re not alone. Student activism is usually derided by internet commenters as sound and fury signifying little real-world experience or effective change. Fuck those assholes. […]
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Pokemon Go out and discover this city
[Image-1] If you’re not careful, you’ll spend the whole school year living in a bubble. A good campus—and Halifax is loaded with ’em—is a socially fluid haven. There are places to eat, work out, even sleep if you go the dorm route (or have a sleeping bag stuffed in that backpack). Schools hope you never […]
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Stay woke: mattress price guide
[Image-1] There are many things in life more complicated than buying a mattress, but sometimes it doesn’t feel that way. Spring or foam? Soft or firm? Boxspring? Frame? Pay for the store to deliver it, or tie it to the roof of your friend’s car? Not to mention the constant fluctuation in prices and sales when […]
