Ahmed Ali

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What Grinds Our Gears: Stop making us pay for access codes and broken web content

Ahmed Ali September 29, 2019

As students, we already have a lot of expenses at SFU. Between just tuition and textbooks, we’re dropping over $2,000 per semester at least — more for international students. But another expense that you don’t expect until it smacks you in the wallet are access codes for certain courses.  Particularly people in the sciences, students will be familiar with a course requiring you to use your instructor’s code and an access code from the bookstore to sign in to an online site for assignments and practice.  The problem with this is that even if you have the material from a…

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Sponsor a Student

Ahmed Ali June 24, 2019

Illustration by: Momo, Lin Imagine if there was a university student in front of you. They are walking to class, notebook in one hand while sipping coffee with the other, smiling about maybe passing. They are on top of the…

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Welcome to the Antique Textbook Show!

Ahmed Ali June 10, 2019

Welcome to 14th annual SFU Antique Textbook Show! Every year, students gather to show off ancient, overpriced education supplies no longer usable in the classroom. These wonderful artifacts of the past have endured much, and they help us understand the…

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Cryptids of SFU

Ahmed Ali May 28, 2019

Exploratory Journal of Unconfirmed Science   May 20th of the year 2019 I, Count Henry Hamilton Reginald III, embarked on a bone-chilling adventure into one of the world’s most isolated environments: The Mysterious Mountain of Simon Fraser. As the cryptozoologist…

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Research Roundup – Investigating links

Ahmed Ali July 11, 2018

How the attractiveness of your server can affect the taste of your food A study done by UBC and SFU students looked at how the attractiveness of a server affected the taste perceptions of male and female customers.    …

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