The Student Cult (Chur)
I don’t fully understand why I did what I did, but most of it can be chalked up to desperation, autism, and a strange attraction to this godforsaken city. Not all of it, though.
There’s something about Dunedin. There’s something about going to the oldest university in our young and stolen country. The water tastes better than anywhere in the world. The air is cold and dry and hits your face like carbonation in the back of...
Man vs Campus: With Sam Soppet
The challenge: seven days, 0.22 square kilometers, one Critic office couch (now my bed). Is it doable? Probably. Will it suck? Absolutely. With the Critic office as my home base and staying within main campus bounds (between Clyde, Cumberland, Albany, Dundas), I aimed to answer the question that nobody asked: can you live on campus for a week without leaving?
To make sure things weren’t too easy (spoiler: nothing was), whenever I...
How to know if you’re a breatha (and how you can come to accept it)
Part 1: Develop self-awareness
Oh, the breatha. The absolute epitome of what people think of when they think “student”. Like the scarfie of yesteryear, the breatha is everywhere: lurking in your lecture halls, downing Monsters in the library, sifting on your mates. You know them when you see them – or do you? Check yourself, breatha; the problem is worse than you think. In very real surveys conducted by the University of...