Aimee Han

There’s always this ongoing battle in my mind about how to start a piece of writing — but I’ve recently found that this mental block isn’t just limited to me displacing my thoughts into your head.

With the amount of pressure we place on ourselves, especially at UC Berkeley, we seldom have time to do things without purpose, just to do things for our well-being. So, here are some tips and tricks to getting back into your hobbies because not everything in life has to be so serious.

Throughout the flurry of midterms and the hours dedicated to studying whizzing by to the drizzling rain that resembles many of our tears, the overall aura of Berkeley has been dimmed from what once was a golden yellow to a bleak gray.

I walked into the venue head-so-empty that my head could’ve been in the clouds, and I just existed—listening to Maggie Rogers’s angelic voice harmonizing not only with the music but the lovely aura she had created within.

As someone who profoundly believes that watching mind-numbing reality TV shows is the perfect way to rest your brain, I have taken it upon myself to rank Netflix reality TV shows from least watchable to most beloved. Here’s my take!

As an experienced boba shop employee, I feel I have the personal insight and knowledge about what each customer’s orders say about them. So, here’s what I believe your boba order says about you. 

“Although, I’ve come to realize that home is not a place, a feeling of comfort or safety or simply a person. Home is an abstract concept that lives, breathes and loves in our brain — almost as if it’s its own entity.”

As someone who now considers myself a mild matcha lover, I get absolutely thrilled to try new matcha lattes to fuel this cycle of feeling as though I’m adulting. So, after careful consideration, here are some of my go-to's for getting matcha nearby campus!

Without a doubt, routines are our comfort, but they aren’t always the best for growth. While having self-discipline is useful, we should ask ourselves: do we exist for the purpose of offering our skills to the world, or do we exist to experience what the world offers to us?

For those of you looking to escape the headache, the smell of overflowing trash or the pile of clothes crowding you in, here are some of my best tips for living with another human.