Featured Posts Remembering Brian: Twenty-Five Years Later At twenty five years, it’s about all the things he has missed. It’s the longing for everything that didn’t happen, the things that couldn’t happen, because he’s no longer here. Grief has been a strange road, one that cannot truly be explained. It started with being all-consuming, a disbelief that… Healing with Send Silence Packing Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness. Meet the Interns: A Look Back at Summer and Forward to the Fall Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness. View all the latest blog posts
Healing with Send Silence Packing Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness.
Meet the Interns: A Look Back at Summer and Forward to the Fall Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness.
All Posts Taking Your Mental Health Advocacy Online With most of Active Minds’ 16,000 student leaders prepared to or already transitioned to online learning, it’s more important than ever to continue our mental health advocacy efforts and support our now-remote campus communities during this time. Below… Read More Coping and Staying Emotionally Well During COVID-19-related School Closures Students at more than one hundred US colleges and universities are preparing to transition to online learning following notices from their schools that in-person courses are ending – either temporarily or for the foreseeable future – due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of a school closure on… Read More Meet Our Spring 2020 Interns! Our Spring 2020 interns have been hard at work so far this semester! You may have met some of them at conference, but if not, here they are! Nithia Akineza Where do you go to school? Bethesda Chevy Chase… Read More Everyone Deserves Love On Valentine’s Day It’s that time of the year again. The aisles of your local CVS are lined with pink and red candy hearts , The Notebook is constantly playing on HBO, and of course: article and blog post after blog post is being written… Read More In Memory of Sue Cimbricz Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Last month, Active Minds lost a force. I met Sue Cimbricz just a handful of months after she experienced the most extraordinary loss anyone can endure: the suicide of her oldest son, Sam. From the moment… Read More Revamping the Student ID Design with Mental Health in Mind Since it was established, Active Minds at Occidental College has been an active organization in terms of tabling and programming, and we strive to give mental health a voice on an institutional level. We aim to work with administrators by sharing information about college… Read More The Epidemic of Bathroom Tears Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. Imagine this: You don’t have enough time to get to class in the six minutes you have between periods, so you have to dip out of class to run to the bathroom. You are either in a huge rush,… Read More You Will Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicidal ideation. If thoughts come with wings and enter our minds from outside ourselves, conceived and born in a great nameless abyss that holds everything possible, good and bad, within it, that is how and from where my first thought of suicide,… Read More Why We Shouldn’t Throw the Phrase “I’m Triggered” Around For college students all across the country, classes are starting back up, and it can be both an exciting and nerve-racking time of year. New classes, new syllabi, new routines, and new friends/classmates are a feature of this time of year, and adjusting to that takes time. It… Read More Moving Away from Home I remember when I moved into my first place that was truly my own. It was the beginning of September, and my dad and I had driven 400+ miles to move into my college apartment before classes started. It was hot and muggy. I remember driving and thinking… Read More 36 / 49
Taking Your Mental Health Advocacy Online With most of Active Minds’ 16,000 student leaders prepared to or already transitioned to online learning, it’s more important than ever to continue our mental health advocacy efforts and support our now-remote campus communities during this time. Below… Read More
Coping and Staying Emotionally Well During COVID-19-related School Closures Students at more than one hundred US colleges and universities are preparing to transition to online learning following notices from their schools that in-person courses are ending – either temporarily or for the foreseeable future – due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of a school closure on… Read More
Meet Our Spring 2020 Interns! Our Spring 2020 interns have been hard at work so far this semester! You may have met some of them at conference, but if not, here they are! Nithia Akineza Where do you go to school? Bethesda Chevy Chase… Read More
Everyone Deserves Love On Valentine’s Day It’s that time of the year again. The aisles of your local CVS are lined with pink and red candy hearts , The Notebook is constantly playing on HBO, and of course: article and blog post after blog post is being written… Read More
In Memory of Sue Cimbricz Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Last month, Active Minds lost a force. I met Sue Cimbricz just a handful of months after she experienced the most extraordinary loss anyone can endure: the suicide of her oldest son, Sam. From the moment… Read More
Revamping the Student ID Design with Mental Health in Mind Since it was established, Active Minds at Occidental College has been an active organization in terms of tabling and programming, and we strive to give mental health a voice on an institutional level. We aim to work with administrators by sharing information about college… Read More
The Epidemic of Bathroom Tears Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. Imagine this: You don’t have enough time to get to class in the six minutes you have between periods, so you have to dip out of class to run to the bathroom. You are either in a huge rush,… Read More
You Will Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicidal ideation. If thoughts come with wings and enter our minds from outside ourselves, conceived and born in a great nameless abyss that holds everything possible, good and bad, within it, that is how and from where my first thought of suicide,… Read More
Why We Shouldn’t Throw the Phrase “I’m Triggered” Around For college students all across the country, classes are starting back up, and it can be both an exciting and nerve-racking time of year. New classes, new syllabi, new routines, and new friends/classmates are a feature of this time of year, and adjusting to that takes time. It… Read More
Moving Away from Home I remember when I moved into my first place that was truly my own. It was the beginning of September, and my dad and I had driven 400+ miles to move into my college apartment before classes started. It was hot and muggy. I remember driving and thinking… Read More
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