Alice Zhang
Three key tips for staying strong in your study group
October 20, 2019Let’s face it: we’ve all barricaded ourselves at home for study-related reasons, only to end up watching Netflix and eating snacks on the couch. “I’ll start after this episode ends,” you tell yourself — only for the next episode to begin automatically. Once you’re 10 minutes in, you might as well finish the rest of the episode, right? I say this jokingly, but making the decision and finding the motivation to sit down and focus can often be the most difficult part of studying for exams. That initial push can be an obstacle that’s really hard to overcome, and there’s…
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Election rundown: Trudeau’s racism scandal is just one of many eroding voter trust
October 6, 2019In mid-September, Times Magazine broke a story that included a photograph of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in brownface at a school event. In the following days, two more images depicting Trudeau in blackface were released to the media. Soon after…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Stop making us pay for access codes and broken web content
September 29, 2019As 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…
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We need to stop e-cigarette use before it ruins a generation like tobacco did
September 16, 2019Editor's note: This piece has been updated to reflect the fact that Juul does not advertise to youth or intend its product for youth consumption. We have to stop being so naive about e-cigarettes. At present, the same mistakes of…
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What (not) to do when your friends are all getting engaged
July 22, 2019Illustrated by: Alice Zhang So your friends are all getting engaged without you? So you were minding your own damn business and doing the classic “reviewing lecture notes while browsing Instagram” study technique when your eyes were assaulted by a…
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Student Masterchef: Surprise Mystery Box Challenge
July 19, 2019Illustration by: Alice Zhang As students, we all know how tedious buying groceries and meal planning (actual meal planning, not buying a pizza and rationing it for a week) can be. Not all of us are pro-chefs; in your darkest…
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Classic fairy tales enter brutalistic SFU: Chapter 2
June 26, 2019Illustration by: Alice Zhang They watched as the figure walked closer, slowly lit up by the desktop’s light. Now they could see that it was just another person, but she was straight out of the uncanny valley. Her long, lanky…
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Classic fairy tales enter brutalistic SFU: Chapter 1
June 25, 2019Illustration by: Alice Zhang Come now children, gather around the Convocation Mall fire pit and get your marshmallows ready. It is time to tell an old SFU fable . . . Once upon a time, atop Burnaby Mountain, stood a…
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It’s time for young people to demand better from their employers
June 15, 2019Jobs for young people suck, and unions are the answer. This is the biggest observation I gleaned from a CBC News article listing the 10 kinds of jobs that receive the most applicants, and the 10 jobs that receive the…
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Seven Deadly Roommate Sins
June 9, 2019Illustration by: Alice Zhang These seven cardinal vices have been around since the dawn of time, thriving and festering in our man-made world. Who better to embody them but broke, stressed, and caffeine-addicted students that are paying over $800 per…
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