Bright-er Side
The sweet relief of no final exams
November 8, 2025By: Zainab Salam, Opinions Editor Don’t you just love it when a course doesn’t have a final exam? I know I do. A certain joy overtakes me when I realize that one of my courses won’t end with me scribbling furiously under the watchful eye of the invigilators. Call me dramatic, but I swear I feel five pounds lighter. Without the pressure of a final, I can lean into the coursework. Every essay, presentation, and project feels more purposeful. The course becomes far more engaging, without the looming shadow of a future torture session — that torture session being a…
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Brighter side: A trail worth following
February 13, 2025By: Moe Hare, SFU Student There’s something undeniably sexy about a happy trail. That thin line of hair leading down, drawing your gaze exactly where it wants to go — it’s practically an invitation! A promise of what’s waiting just…
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Brighter Side: Album releases
December 16, 2024By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer As a huge music fan with an appreciation for every genre under the sun, there’s nothing more exciting than when one of my favourite artists announces the release of a new album. I’m just as…
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Bright-er Side: Early Christmas movie binges
November 15, 2024By: Mason Mattu, Peak Associate It’s November 1 at around midnight. You know it’s officially Christmas after seeing Mariah Carey “defrost” on her socials. Ah, what a feeling. Instead of celebrating Christmas starting in November, there is indeed a select…
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Bright-er Side: Pawfect puppies!
November 6, 2024By: Sarah Sorochuk, Peak Associate Life can suck sometimes. Are midterms getting you down, or just the weather? Well, all that can come to an end with the Saint John Ambulance therapy dogs to the rescue! These pups are perfect…
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The Bright-er Side: SFU Burnaby in autumn
October 15, 2024By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer While many associate the colder months with seasonal depression, I couldn’t be happier about the dark and gloomy weather. I relish spending days indoors, in the many nooks and crannies of campus, in a knit…
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Bright-er Side: Photo booths
October 1, 2024By: Dani Santos, SFU Student There’s nothing better than capturing a moment in a photograph. Whether it’s with friends, family, or even just by yourself, photo booths are a cute and fun way to spend a few minutes frozen in…
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Bright-er Side: Navigating the maze of Burnaby Mountain
September 26, 2024By: Jin Song, Peak Associate My first experience of SFU’s Burnaby campus was struggling to find TASC 9204 for an absurd amount of time. Even with the help of Google Maps, SFU Snap, the campus maps, and strangers (none of…
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The Bright-er Side: End of semester
April 1, 2024By: Jin Song, SFU Student I’m really not the first to comment on how fast time passes. Still, let it be known that I, for one, blinked twice and the semester was over. Between the blur of assignments, the mundanity…
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The Bright-er Side: Back to School
March 12, 2024By: Jin Song, SFU Student It’s that time again! My alarm goes off before the sun is up. Bleary-eyed, I crawl out of bed to wait in the cold, dark morning for the bus that’s running late. At my lecture,…
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