How to Make the Most of Time After Covid

Where on earth did the time go? When I look back on 2020, the months take on a haze of dimly-lit images: my bed, my jogging route, the living room, my laptop. I think it’s fair to say that in spite of the hous...

How to Avoid Getting Swindled on Dating Apps

A few weeks ago, The Tinder Swindler debuted on Netflix. A tense, fast-paced documentary, the film follows the stories of three women who fell victim to an elaborate scam concocted by Simon Leviev, in which he...

Finding Glasses that Suit Your Face

What Glasses Suit You? Over the past fifty years, rates of short-sightedness (or myopia) have doubled across Europe, with the result that an overwhelming fifty percent of young adults across the continent c...

Why Shein is the Ultimate Fast Fashion Scapegoat

And just like that, the pandemic is over. With bars, clubs and restaurants reopened indefinitely, and even the omnipresent face masks set to lose their mandatory status, the past two years have already begun t...

Why is Healthy Eating so Expensive?

It’s January. Our social media feeds have been inundated with gym selfies, healthy breakfast recipes and the inevitable stream of “what I eat in a day” videos. Clicking into any one of these posts will inevita...

Why am I having trouble sleeping?

As we draw in the new year, a personal review of 2021 – in lieu of more exciting life events – defines it as a year of not getting enough sleep. Hours spent tossing and turning, four a.m. starts, and essays wr...

How to deal with homesickness when moving out

At long last, the world is beginning to open up again. Colleges are resuming in-person lectures, study abroad programmes are being kickstarted, and waking up for a 9 a.m. no longer simply involves rolling out ...