Daniel Salcedo Rubio
What Grinds Our Knees: Being too tall
July 20, 2025By: Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor Being tall might be something many want, but honestly, it’s a full-time curse. My knees? Crunchier than a Nature Valley granola bar. Running? Please. I’m one bad jog away from all my joints crumbling like a Nature Valley granola bar. Lower back? Falling apart faster than a Nature Valley granola bar. And to top it all off, I’m also more likely to get cancer just because I have more cells. Like, damn, can I live please? And it doesn’t end with physiology. The world is just not made for people my height. I know,…
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Lotería: SFU edition
April 4, 2025By: Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor SFU’s new pre-convocation event was honestly . . . not bad. There were the usual finger food and photo booth with the typical cardboard cutouts, as well as a couple of SFU-inspired board games,…
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New year, no resolutions, just reflections on life
January 9, 2025By: Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor I ended 2023 and started 2024 in what I can only describe now as a miserable situation. I was living in a place where I no longer felt comfortable, and was becoming unsafe. However,…
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The living tradition of Día de los Muertos
October 28, 2024By: Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a traditional celebration, originating from a mixture of Indigenous and Spanish cultures. The death cult was a core aspect of Indigenous cultures — families of…
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BC Provincial Election: Candidates, issues, and voting
July 31, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Staff Writer and Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor The provincial election is coming up soon, and for some of us it may be our first time voting in one — or just voting in general! While the…
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What Grinds our Gears: Poorly constructed scientific papers
November 30, 2023By: Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor I’m a grad student in STEM. I know — it’s my own doing, and there’s no one to blame but myself for having to read overly complicated scientific papers every week. What annoys me…
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English is a ridiculous language
June 19, 2023By: Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor English is an absurd language. There, I said it. For me, it was relatively easy to reach a conversational level, but English has some random pronunciation rules which . . . don’t make sense? …
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Letting go of the future to be aware of my present
March 20, 2023By: Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor Content warning: mentions of disordered eating and harmful behaviour. Happiness is such an elusive concept; we look for it in every corner only to realize it’s still far away. We keep thinking we will…
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When disaster strikes, these dogs don’t just sit and stay
March 17, 2023By: Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor I come from Mexico, a country where, as unbelievable as it might sound, we have nearly annual earthquakes in September, now known as “earthquake month” by the locals. I know such a thing doesn’t…
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Is AI painting a bright or bleak future?
January 24, 2023By: Daniel Salcedo Rubio Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize many industries, from healthcare to finance, and yes, even art. However, as with any new technology, there are also concerns about its potential misuse. There are many present…
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