Dear Diary. Gamification: Trees Please!

Laptop ✓ Class notes ✓ Scholarly articles ✓ Motivation ✗  With my blank document staring back at me, I’m choosing an avoidance coping mechanism. If I don’t look back, then it basically doesn’t exist, right? I reach for my phone. Snapchat. Instagram. Facebook. Messenger. Twitter. TikTok. Pinterest. Repeat. Oh how engaging the gamified elements of … Continue reading Dear Diary. Gamification: Trees Please!

Dear Diary. Gamification: Yearn to Learn.

24th April 2018. This year I will turn 18! It’s my final year of high school! Soon I will finally get my license! In the blink of an eye I will get to experience the exotic vibe of the Geelong Hotel dance floor! I’ve got my DREAM role of Rizzo in the production of Grease! … Continue reading Dear Diary. Gamification: Yearn to Learn.

Dear Diary. Steal That Style: Coachella Vibes.

Anybody who knows me well, knows that my plans were to be uncontactable from 9/4/2020-18/4/2020 - whilst I lost myself on Instagram in the immersive, magical world of Coachella. There's NOTHING I love more than the fun, quirky outfits that often make no logical sense at all. Everybody that is 'somebody' is there. I love … Continue reading Dear Diary. Steal That Style: Coachella Vibes.

Dear Diary. Gamification: Motivation Sensation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kCSYC9WX0E P-B. Have any 2 letters of the alphabet ever fitted so well together? Like ying and yang. Like a missing puzzle piece. Like Cinderella's glass slipper. P and B just work! This is probably why personal benefit just so happens to play a major role in all decision making - as evident in the … Continue reading Dear Diary. Gamification: Motivation Sensation.

Dear Diary. Steal That Style: Tiktok Queen, Kaylie Altman.

'Tis the season for adolescent women to stay inside - make TikTok's - Zoom some friends - have a mental breakdown - drown their sorrows in a $5 bottle of ALDI rosé - and then, inevitably, 'spontaneously' cut/dye their hair. Dear Isolation, Please stop making us think that we can successfully have a Cartia Mallan/Emma … Continue reading Dear Diary. Steal That Style: Tiktok Queen, Kaylie Altman.

Dear Diary. Gamification: Think Before You Drink.

I'm going to start as blatantly as possible. People are dying because of alcohol! According to the World Health Organisation (WHO,) 3 million people died as a result of harmful alcohol consumption in 2016. Added to this census is alcohol induced suicides. Cancer Council, WA also outlined that 5,797 Australians died in 2015 from alcohol-attributable … Continue reading Dear Diary. Gamification: Think Before You Drink.

Dear Diary. Steal That Style: MAF’s edition.

It's raining heavily outside. How relevant? Definitely representative of the current, gloomy mood of the world. This isolation seems to be going on forever!!! The man of the hour, Covid-19 appears to be outstaying his welcome.... Naively I thought that it wasn't THIS big of a deal, and honestly thought I'd be shredding the Geelong … Continue reading Dear Diary. Steal That Style: MAF’s edition.