I tried not to let my worries show, but some aspects of college terrified me. I had never lived with anyone besides my family and I wasn’t great at conflict resolution, so I didn’t know what having a roommate would be like. I came from a small school that didn’t have a real party scene so I had no clue what my social life would be like.
Read MoreOur whole lives, we have a path carved out for us. Senior year hits and suddenly we need to have everything figured out for the next step of our lives. Students apply to schools with the stress of possibly not getting in, and now, not getting into the most challenging program.
Read MoreThere’s so much in this world that I’m waiting to see. I want to get my own apartment, one with big windows and a small dog. I want to live with someone that I love, not someone I start out loving because I’m supposed to, but someone whom I fall in love with, someone who was a stranger until they weren’t anymore. I want to someday change the world, as impossible as it is.
Read More“Five! Four! Three! Two! One!” The ball dropped and we kissed and smiled and danced around like idiots while surrounded by two million other people. Then, about five minutes into the new year I felt a sudden surge of anxiety creep up on me. What the hell has actually changed?
Read MoreAs people are counting down the days until break with excitement, I find myself counting down the days with hesitation. It’s not that I don’t want to go home- or maybe I actually don’t, I’m not really sure- but the stress of the holidays is what colors my image of the two weeks I’ll be spending with my family.
Read MoreI can’t remember my mother without schizophrenia. I still remember the first day that she was hospitalized. It was a few days before my ninth birthday when she suddenly began spewing incoherent nonsense.
Read More“Hello, this is the Univeristy of Akron counseling center, how can we help you today?” I choked out my rehearsed response: I had visited their website and screened myself as positive for clinical depression and anxiety and I needed help.
Read MoreTrigger Warning: self-harm, abuse
Read MoreA poem by Rhianna Vergeer
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