confessionals
CONFESSIONALS: I wish my students were more creative
January 22, 2025By: C Icart, Humour Editor I’m a TA. Some might even say I’m the best TA (and they would be so unequivocally correct). So naturally, academic integrity (only second to graphic design) is my passion. I spend all my free time looking for new ways to instill “the values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage” into my students. AND YET! Once in a while someone tries to bamboozle me. This type of behaviour disappoints me. It makes me sad because I make all my students pinky swear they won’t cheat on day one. That way I have grounds…
Continue reading
CONFESSIONALS: I take a moment of silence after making a large purchase to make peace with the money I have let slip away
October 2, 2024By: Yulissa Huamani, SFU student Every time I leave the house, I promise myself I will only buy something if it’s absolutely necessary. Something that still surprises me a lot is that taxes are added at the end of a…
Continue reading
CONFESSIONALS: I’ve been reading the same book for over two years
May 31, 2023By: C Icart, Humour Editor Hey! Don’t look at me like that. Yeah, that’s right, I can feel you judging me like my ex judged me, and my previous ex, and my previous ex . . . damn, I’ve been…
Continue reading
CONFESSIONALS: I still play Candy Crush
May 18, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Staff Writer I never thought I’d be in this position. I was merely a child when the game launched in 2012 — the same year the world was allegedly supposed to end. But . . . what…
Continue reading
Confessionals: I look at episode summaries of shows I say I’ll watch
October 20, 2022By: Showstopper Dearly beloved, sinners, and worse, drivers in downtown Vancouver, I come to this sacred space to confess another crime. It has taken me years to admit this about myself, but I think it’s always good to set examples…
Continue reading
Confessionals: Halloween girlie refuses to be confronted by her own fears
October 5, 2022By: Ab-horror-nt and Valid (Kelly Chia, Humour Editor) I am human. I am mortal. And alas, I think I have an all too relatable conundrum. The fall of all reputable Halloween girlies, the grand hamartia of everyone who claims they…
Continue reading
CONFESSIONALS: My summer of identity theft and unrequited love
July 16, 2022By: The Impersonator Everyone has done it: enter the wrong classroom on the first day of school. You quickly grab a seat at the front and make yourself comfortable only to be caught off guard by unfamiliar jargon. Mitochondria, epinephrine,…
Continue reading
CONFESSIONALS: If you leave the group chat, I am leaving you for the sharks
June 28, 2022By: Kelly Chia, Humour Editor Is this a confessional or a reckoning? At this point, I’m not sure. I am a destroyed woman. And it’s because of you. I will RUIN you. Look, I know how I sound. I’m a…
Continue reading
CONFESSIONALS: I miss Burnaby campus
July 12, 2020Written by Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer I’ll just say it: I miss going to Burnaby campus. Every day, I got chills taking the 145 bus up the mountain and reaching the peak. See the uninviting concrete façade. See the sports…
Continue reading
CONFESSIONAL: I just can’t stop ending Zoom calls!
June 9, 2020By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer It started a few months ago, when everything ended. Face-to-face interaction, that is. I thought it was finally over, that I was free from the paralyzing prison of others’ eyes and the mortifying ordeal of…
Continue reading
