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Dealing with body issues
![A blue measuring tap on top of glass scales.](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-05/scale-g9d31158ae_1280.jpg?h=2e4af638&itok=JNxpH7q4)
I have been unhealthily obsessed with my weight for a long time.
Three years of Eid abroad
![A bunch of ketupat.](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-05/mufid-majnun-nrdfc5u6q9y-unsplash.jpg?h=c4dd2c7b&itok=dC58PEup)
Eid celebrations (or Raya as we call it in Malaysia) began to look a little different to me in 2020.
The magic of a garden
![variety of small cacti and succulents in pots on a shelf](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-04/pexels-element-digital-1470171.jpg?h=c4dd2c7b&itok=OE2sb99O)
After having lived in small apartments/units for the past four years, helping my siblings build a small veggie garden at home has filled me with some unexpected joy.
Pomodoro breaks
![black analogue clock sitting on a desk next to a laptop](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-04/pexels-mike-1178683.jpg?h=c4dd2c7b&itok=3A8w99Ys)
I love those 'Study with Me' pomodoro YouTube videos as much as the next person, but I never know what do when my five minute break starts!
Students who are parents
![Rear body shots of 2 adults holding either hand of a toddler, walking away from the camera.](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-05/family-1866868_1920.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=0AhyyURE)
I joined the university’s mentoring program in my first year as an HDR student. I am so grateful I was assigned my mentor. She has stuck with me through all the disruptions during my Ph.D. candidature.
Weekend wanders
![A woman kayaking along a river.](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-05/filip-mroz-zk049ofp4ui-unsplash.jpg?h=c4dd2c7b&itok=FsUuchho)
A guide of things to do on the weekends when you don’t know what to do.
Electoral bombardment
![A man standing in front of a blackboard with the word stress in chalk everywhere including across their face.](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-05/stress-3853148_1920.jpg?h=48f40d0b&itok=3AbvoKO4)
Flicking on the TV or scrolling through Facebook lately has been giving me an election information-overload headache.
Unmasking
![Young woman wearing a white medical mask](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-04/pexels-anna-shvets-3902881.jpg?h=c4dd2c7b&itok=QdqB1YFM)
In the name of safety and protecting those around me from COVID-19, I readily accepted the mask mandates in 2020 and have gotten pretty comfortable with them since. But maybe… a little too comfortable?
Graduation speeches
![view from below of 6 students in graduation gowns holding their fingers in v signs together in a group](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-05/group-6209550_1920.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=LlQJwJjI)
I do love autumn graduations. What I’d love more is to one day be graduating myself!