Advice: Where to Get Care

Whether it's trouble with a long distance relationship, choosing your major or feeling like NYUAD is not the right place for you, A Word of Advice is...

Beginning My Conversation on Bullying

The first and only time I cried in class happened on a December morning of my freshman year as I listened to my classmates’ final monologues in...

Cartoon: What To Expect At Health & Wellness

Jiwon Shin is a staff illustrator. Email her at feedback@thegazelle.org. ...

Classist Health

Walk into any store today, even the university Convenience Store, and look for the health food section. Greens and browns will dominate; with words...

Lack of HIV testing at NYUAD detrimental to university mission

This article was first published in The Gazelle on March 8, 2015. A series of articles recently released by The National have challenged stigmas ...

Creating A Discussion Around Mental Health

This article was first published in The Gazelle on Oct. 18, 2014. MELBOURNE, Australia — Studying at NYU Abu Dhabi is intense. Every day I felt ...

The mandatory P.E. conspiracy

Before I joined NYU Abu Dhabi, I had never stepped foot inside a gym. Call me crazy, but I just didn't feel the need to do push-ups, run around in ...

Less Than Perfect

After I was born one September afternoon, under the Virgo zodiac sign, my grandmother’s astrologer Gary predicted that I would be a perfectionist. No...

The Insomnia Games

Students at NYU Abu Dhabi wield their all-nighters like trophies, humble-bragging under the pretense of complaining about how tired they are. Jokes...

Spiritual Health: Connecting Mind, Body and Soul

Our reality is connected to the way we think, and in today’s reality there is often a disconnect between mind, body and soul. In our incredibly ...

Students In Decision Making with Athletics

Throughout my two semesters here at NYU Abu Dhabi I have noticed a common characteristic among many students, including myself. We all like to...

A Silent Battle Against Sexual Assault

His eyes are not on her smile, nor does he find what she says particularly interesting. As he advances towards her, she knows that inner devastation...

Take a Break: Destigmatizing the Leave of Absence

In the spring of 2015, I took a semester’s leave of absence to live in the Wudang Mountains of China. To me, it was an exciting adventure, but many...

Take The Bloody Tax Off Tampons

This week, members of the U.K. parliament voted against a proposal to abolish the 5 percent value-added tax on sanitary products, a move that ...

Mock US Presidential Debate: Another Layer to the Political Onion

At 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening, the All University Events committee held a Mock Presidential Debate open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community. While many...

Feel Good, Eat Better at NYUAD dining halls

The dining hall recently underwent a revamp this September with the introduction of the Feel Good counter, which aims to serve as a lighter...

Movember, Manology and Men’s Health

Starting on Nov. 1, men across the world will be letting the stubble above their upper lip grow out into something else. Movember is “the hairiest ...

Debut of the Falcon Mascot

Cheering and chanting from the bleachers, a sea of purple-clad NYU Abu Dhabi students marked the first pep rally at the university this past...

Updates on Campus Wi-Fi

With intermittent Wi-Fi service being characteristic of life on Saadiyat, the NYU Abu Dhabi IT Department, along with Facilities, is mounting a ...

The Halloween Zombie Run

As campus safety is a priority at NYU Abu Dhabi, the ability of students to know how to react in the event of a zombie apocalypse is of utmost ...

Athlete Profiles: Captains of the Class of 2019

I got into it largely through my granddad. My granddad was a very keen cricketer, so whenever he came around to our house, I’d always play cricket...

Athletes and the Plant-Based Diet

If you have tuned into any form of news coverage or social media within the past week, you would have seen the latest World Health Organization study...

Bystander Intervention: Creating a community that cares

One night last September, an unusual sight appeared on the campus High Line. Spread outside of A6, a small, blue kiddie pool drew students to the ...

Conversations on campus: eating disorders

This article was first published in The Gazelle on May 9, 2015. Nearly a fifth of students on US college campuses suffer from some form of an eating...

The Rocky Freshman Road

Stepping off the Etihad airplane upon my arrival to Abu Dhabi at the end of August, I recounted the long hours I had spent curled up in my window...

DIY: Cooking on Campus

When assignments start to pile up, sometimes even having a meal at the dining hall with friends can become a luxury. Many students opt for deliveries...

A Q&A on Mental Health with Health and Wellness Director

Whether it's a first time appointment or routine counseling, mental health services can be a huge boon for students dealing with the stressful ...

Our Greatest Struggles This Week

Everybody has the perfect life according to social media. Through carefully curated content, we present the ideal but often distorted version of ...

Finding Strength

I still remember February of 2014 vividly. While my classmates were studying for their mock exams, I was on a train from Zürich to St. Gallen. Many...

Dialogue on Depression

I experienced my first crippling bout of depression during the fall semester of my junior year at NYU Abu Dhabi. I'd been going to therapy since the...

JUICE HACKS: 5 NEW FIVE-A-DAYS TO TRY AT THE MARKETPLACE

With a special issue on health, here are even more juice hacks to add in The Gazelle’s growing list of smoothie recipes. All of these can be created...

Confessions of an Approval Junkie

It started three months into my eighth grade, when a girl I’ll call Jenna asked me to help her with research for an essay. Jenna was popular,...

Weight Gained and Lost

I am no health professional. What I am is an ordinary human who, like many others, has suffered the blows of weight gain. I’ve gone on every possible...

Women’s Health at NYUAD: A Guide

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, as defined by the World...