“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough” – Robert Capa.

Last Wednesday I took this challenge personally and it resulted with me in handcuffs.

Packing up, moving out of home, the pressure of making friends as well as starting school. On top of all that, we’re in the middle of our nation’s biggest Covid-19 outbreak to date.

An immediate funding boost for mental health and addiction support was given to three Auckland universities including Massey University’s Albany campus at the start of the semester. However, there may be more to stopping mental illness than just funding support.

It’s back! Shhhhh…..

Confessions of a is an anonymous column that looks to unearth viewpoints from unique individuals at Massey University.

Horoscopes March 14

A group of Massey University students are lobbying for tuition fees to be reduced, as many of their courses have been disrupted by Covid-19, or moved entirely online.

Solicited advice is a weekly column where an underqualified anonymous guru answers the questions you want answered.

The holy grail of lazy dinners for me was when we’d be left to fend for ourselves as we got a bit older. Instant meals were the light of my young life, making a mess of the microwave, feeling like I was on MasterChef when I seasoned the packets of pasta or added cheese all by myself.

Growing up, food tends to just be food. We have a palate of flavours we’re raised on until one day we move away from home. From here, the doors open to the wonderful world of food and we meet flavours we never knew existed.

Food is a fickle subject for students. Some of us love to chef it up in the kitchen, creating culinary masterpieces to fill our pukus.

I’m sure many of us have felt exhausted and frustrated as the health inequities of Pacific communities are framed as the individual failings of Pacific Islanders themselves.

I dropped the ball in issue one by not introducing our lovely team. So instead of sharing a picture of their beautiful faces, and a corny paragraph about their fake hobbies, I thought I’d let you judge them based on the state of their fridges!

A common feeling among students at the moment is that Covid-19 has ruined everything. O-Week was tarnished with restrictions.

We all have a special something we turn to when times are tough. When the grind is getting too much, or it’s not easy to leave the house, we all have a special meal we can rely on to get us through our bad patches.

By now, this information will come as no surprise; news and social media have been drenched with videos of the violence breaking out across Eastern Europe for weeks, undeniably tearing everyone’s hearts into pieces and leaving us all feeling lost with how to help.

Conversion therapy is the umbrella term for any practice which has a common belief that a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity can and should be changed. Any practice which falls under this umbrella term is incredibly outdated, designed to suppress a person’s rights and feelings about themselves for the sake of another or a group’s ideology.

A lack of O-Week events has caused the Wellington student body to turn feral, as freshers have been caught stealing all the good shit from orientation goodie bags. This blatant crime comes directly after students were encouraged by Mason Tangatatai, Editor of Massive Magazine to “steal as much free shit as possible during O-Week” in their inaugural magazine.

Tēnā koutou, e hoa, I can feel the jitters running through my body, my palms are sweating, my knees knobbling, and my heart racing as I long for a physical copy of Massive Magazine.

Everyone loves a scandalous confessions page. You’re never sure if what people saying is fake or not, but that’s what make these pages great.