Everyone has advice for you when you first go to college: Avoid taking 8 am classes. Go to every class. Learn how to resolve conflicts with roommates. Don’t schedule more than an hour between classes. etc. etc. Freshman year was hard for me. I had moved out of state, was going to a school where…
Category: Prevention & Awareness
What We Would Have Told Maddy
One night, after a difficult first semester at the University of Pennsylvania, Madison Holleran sat down at her computer and researched a few clubs to get involved in at school. One of them was Active Minds. Sadly, Maddy never made it there. Just weeks into her second semester, Maddy died by suicide. In the recently…
EXPECTO PATRONUM! A Spell or a mantra?
Ever since being introduced to the Harry Potter books in elementary school I’ve felt a strong connection to the magical world that has taken me beyond that which I sometimes feel with my real life acquaintances. Attending book and movie releases helped me have something to look forward to, the characters’ growth something to guide…
The Connection We Aren’t Talking About
I was on Facebook when I stumbled across the video of a news clip that recently aired in the UK. It was an interview with the mother of Lily-Anna Winter, a thirteen-year old girl who died by suicide in May of 2017. Although I did not know Lily-Anna or her family, this was the type…
Did You Hear about the Rose that Grew from Concrete?
“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Provin Nature’s laws wrong it learned how to walk without Havin feet Funny it seems but, by keepin its dreams It, learned to breathe FRESH air Long live the rose that grew from concrete When no one else even cared No…