Editorial
Nexus Mag

Letter From The Editor – Issue 6

EDITORIAL I guess it’s true when they say there’s a first for everything. Never did I imagine I would be here writing an editorial piece for a student magazine. All odds stacked against me with my writing skills tutored by youtube, editing dependent on Grammarly and inspiration drawn from my

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Lockdown
Nexus Mag

Embracing the solitude

QUARANTINE DIARIES As Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote “Hell is other people” and I am in heaven. I cannot tell you how long I have been in government-enforced isolation. Nor can I tell you how much longer it will be. It is not so different from my self-imposed isolation spanning the

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Lockdown
Nexus Mag

Sleep and exercise

QUARANTINE DIARIES So I have spent over a week in self-isolation and I am coping a lot better than I thought I would. I didn’t expect to be doing as well as I am. I am not insanely bored as I have things to entertain me such as watching YouTube,

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Top Ten
Nexus Mag

Top 10: Things I Can’t Wait to do Once Out of Isolation

10. Hunt for seats in a packed student centrealways gives me a bit of a thrill9. Actually set foot on campuskidding, that never happened anyway8. Go to the gym time is running out to get #shreddedforrhythm7. Go out to brunch with the girlsmy Instagram has been lackin’6. Hit the beachit

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Reo Tauira
Nexus Mag

Wicked Waiata: Noho Rāhui Edition

REO TAUIRA For those of us who have the whārns withdrawals hard and are missing the weekly jam sessions, we’ve got you covered! Learn your words during the rāhui and you’ll get that front row Waiora spot for sure! We’ve compiled some staple anthems that you’d usually hear all around

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Horoscopes
Nexus Mag

Horoscopes – Issue 6

AQUARIUS JAN 20 – FEB 18 This is that part of the party where the only light is from the bare bulb in the toilet, people are passed out on couches and the stereo is crooning to an empty room. Get used to the metaphor. PISCES FEB 19 – MAR

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Poetry
Nexus Mag

Cloud and Dream – Mark Prisco

NEXUS CREATIVE SPACE they spy the hole in the cloud & dream He lies for the sun smiles & shadows play the waves of grass;  & nothing changes.  She thinks.  Time’s constructed from bits, remnants the river flings; is aware bare paws pad the shore. There are gods here also

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Sex in the Tron
Nexus Mag

guide to productive sift in the tron

SEX AND THE TRON Here’s what you can do if you’re… Extremely Single There’s two main paths you can really go down here. One is to feel like shit. Maybe you’re feeling super lonely and it’s getting you down. Maybe you’re still healing from something, obsessing over someone, or your

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Lockdown
Nexus Mag

my Banana’s still aren’t ripe

QUARANTINE DIARIES I have lost my mind. I have truly reached the height of insanity and depression. Maybe I should start writing Whelmed. submissions because I really am overwhelmed. The flow of Uni is nearly non-existent and yet assignments are rolling in. Classes are incoherent, my tutor didn’t even join

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Diminutive
Nexus Mag

Diminutive Post – Issue 6

Middle aged women becomes overnight environmentalist  We recently interviewed Deb 38, a worker at ‘full time mummy’. “Honestly someone just needed to get the word out about this, I’ve seen so much news on Facebook”. What Deb refers to is, of course, the global instances of nature remediation. “So I

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