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OpinionNovember 18

Social media a refuge from interacting with strangers

If there is something that really gets me going, it is the idea technology somehow makes people worse than they already are.
OpinionNovember 11

Seeking autobiographical insight

Even though I wrote my dissertation on the complicated relationship autobiography has to fiction, I haven't spent a lot of time reading autobiographies or memoirs.
OpinionNovember 4

True or false: art from the heart can be packaged many ways

Last week in this column I wrote about talent and how I think it is an unhealthy societal construct that stops people from trying or pursuing things they do not feel they have some ''natural'' aptitude for.
OpinionOctober 28

Talent has little to do with it

One of the most radical things anyone who criticises or participates in any art form can think is that talent is not inherent.
OpinionOctober 21

Hoping for the best is a futile, fraught pastime

I am not an optimist.
OpinionOctober 14

Finding a true stage presence

Last week, my band played at the Dunedin Pride festival at Sammy's.
OpinionOctober 7

Dissertation done - let the dreams begin

Yesterday, I submitted my honours dissertation.
OpinionSeptember 30

Having to stay alive brings food for thought

In high school I had a biology teacher who believed life would be better and easier if we could photosynthesise.
OpinionSeptember 16

The right time to write

Until this year I had always thought of myself as someone who could think and write very quickly when it came to academic work.
OpinionSeptember 16

Remember, media market is made up of much more than men

Recently, a radio station in the United Kingdom decided to change its name to Radio X, a radio station with a ''male focus''.
OpinionSeptember 2

Boy band's pop a wake-up call: music doesn't have to be hard work

Last week it was announced that One Direction will be going on hiatus in March next year.
OpinionAugust 26

Safe space, as the sign says

For the past week I have been almost exclusively sequestered away at my friend's new cafe.
OpinionAugust 19

Record of work achieved in studies

On Saturday I graduated with my undergraduate degrees.
OpinionAugust 14

Scary side of men's activism

For some reason when you say men's rights activism to people who aren't familiar with the term, they think it is something good and not something crazy and terrifying.
OpinionJuly 29

The Net effect - worry and woe

Sometimes the internet is a dark and dangerous place.
OpinionJuly 16

Who said this drug was OK?

After yet another afternoon fuelled by too much coffee and not enough to eat, I finally decide to do some reading on caffeine.
Who said this drug was OK?
Who said this drug was OK?
OpinionJuly 1

Procrastination - something to sleep on

For someone who has quite a lot of trouble sleeping, I want to be asleep a surprising amount of the time I am awake.
OpinionJune 24

Warped views and the warping of responses

Recently, Nobel Prize winning biochemist Tim Hunt stood down from his position at University College London after his comments at a conference in Seoul led to widespread outrage in the scientific community.
OpinionJune 10

Different life with benefit of hindsight

This year I am writing an honours dissertation in English literature.
OpinionJune 3

Worse things than living in fear of a quake

I didn't feel the earthquake on Monday night. I was walking to a friend's house after work with headphones on, and so far as I was aware everything was normal and if anything swayed a little I must have just put it down to my faulty eyesight.
OpinionMay 27

Time for men to broaden horizons

Representation of women in the media is something I think about a lot, and it seems like for the last few weeks all anyone has been able to talk about is the movie Mad Max: Fury Road.
OpinionMay 20

Acting without reason can be plain horrifying

This week my classmate gave a presentation on Edgar Allan Poe's horror stories.
OpinionMay 13

Food for thought for city cafes

It's getting to the time of year when I am completely overwhelmed by the number of assignments I have to turn in.
OpinionApril 29

Fashioning an artful response

Fashion week has been and gone in Dunedin, and typically, having missed the opportunity to engage with the fashion industry first hand, I've started thinking about it a week late.
Fashioning an artful response
Fashioning an artful response