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How to Play The Pawn’s Special Game
April 1, 2025By: Your friends at The Pawn <3 Are you on the hunt for a fun way to waste time? Never fear — The Pawn is here! After multiple months of testing, we’ve come up with the perfect game for you to play during the extraordinarily lengthy 10-minute break that you have between your 8:30 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. lecture in West Mall, and your 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. “seminar” (or should we say syrup-making session?) in Blusson Hall. To make sure this game works perfectly, every current staff member of The Peak Pawn was invited to the office to…
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Degrees are valuable, regardless of their economic opportunities
September 19, 2023By: C Icart, Humour Editor What do you want out of your degree? Have you considered that not everyone’s answer may be the same? Starting my third degree in social sciences has prompted nosy questions and unsolicited comments all over…
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SFU to begin new Sustainable Energy Engineering program in fall 2019
June 20, 2018By Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor On June 5, SFU’s new Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE) program was approved by the B.C ministry to be hosted in a new building being constructed at SFU's Surrey campus. The provincial ministry has…
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SFU undergraduate students will now have major listed on degree parchment
November 17, 2017The convocation ceremony next summer will mark the first time that SFU undergraduate students are handed a degree parchment listing their major. SFU Senate announced at a recent meeting that the university will now include a student’s highest level of…
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What I wish I knew on my first day at SFU
September 12, 2016[dropcap]I [/dropcap]recently completed my undergraduate degree and people aren’t joking when they say that achieving milestones makes you weirdly sentimental. Since summer semester ended, I have spent a lot of time reflecting on my past four years at SFU. When…
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WQB requirements are pointless
November 29, 2015[dropcap]W[/dropcap]QB — writing, quantitative, breadth. Since I began at SFU in 2012, I have spent way too much time investing, financially and otherwise, in classes that have had nothing to do with my degree, my interests, or my academic skill.…
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Study reveals BC degrees pay off for recent grads
November 10, 2014The Research Universities’ Council of British Columbia (RUCBC) released a report on October 24 titled Putting Degrees to Work, the findings of which indicate that a university degree from a BC institution has substantial value. The report compiled survey data…
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