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2021 Craccum Highlights

Flick through this year’s Craccum editions and remind yourself of all the wonderful, weird, confronting and uplifiting events of 2021.

A selection of 2020 Craccum Magazine covers

Feature highlights

UniHow: How to be Skuxx Deluxe Fo Life

By Mairatea Mohi

A mainstay in the young person’s dictum and a puzzle to parents, the word skux has its origins in a highschool classroom. It’s a contraction of the Samoan slang word for study, ‘sikaki’. And in usual lazy teenager fashion the work ‘sikaki’ was shortened and we were left with ‘skak’ or ‘stud’. And because we love to put an ‘s’ at the end of every word we got ‘skaks’. From here you can see where we got ‘skux’ and its eventual form ‘Skuxx Deluxx’.

The Future is Here: Where Are You Now?

By Naomi Seah

When I left high school, I thought that by 2021 I would be in my second-to-last year of medical school… at Otago. Hah.

Evidently, that’s not where I am. The record of my five-year plan is gone now, if there ever was one. But at the end of year 13, I was asked where I would be in five years. I couldn’t even fathom that amount of time, to be honest. For the past five years, I’d, well, been in high school.

Here’s how I thought it would go: I’d go to The University of Otago, and ace First Year Health Sciences (lol), I’d cruise into Medical school, calmly finish my degree, and probably go overseas (also lol) and do volunteer work.

Cool Sexy Dating Advice from NZ Politicians

By Matthew O’Connell

We look to our politicians for their wisdom to fix the housing crisis (lol), or to keep us safe from a pandemic. But what about their wisdom regarding dating? If there are two things I admire in this world, it is politics and a good date. Why not combine the two, hence the purpose of this article. Plus, it’s not every day I get to call up politicians to ask them for dating advice. I sent emails to a wide range of MPs—happy to just talk to them xx—and asked them the following questions:

1. What would be your dating advice for young people in the social media age?

2. The most important quality in a partner?

3. The best date idea for students?

Dealing with the Imposter

By Ashley Vaotuua

In a space where you cannot see yourself, it’s easy to feel that you don’t belong. Or to think that you’re undeserving of an opportunity, a voice, or success. These feelings of fraudulence have been defined as the imposter syndrome. It’s everywhere but nowhere at the same time, because while it’s something that is felt by so many, it is rarely talked about or recognised. In essence, you feel like an imposter within your own life.