distractions
Students shouldn’t need to be policed into respecting quiet study spaces
June 30, 2019By: Kitty Cheung, Staff Writer Last week, a fellow student sat beside me in the sixth-floor computer lab of the library and proceeded to watch a sports commentary video on YouTube. With the noise leaking from their earbuds, I couldn’t help but look up from my screen, distracted. This person then pulled out a family-sized bag of potato chips from their backpack and munched, loudly. They weren’t pulling out single chips to snack on discreetly, either. These were face-stuffing handfuls that left their entire palm encrusted with chip dust. Aside from the obnoxious crunching of both the chips themselves and the…
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Fuck it. I am a procrastinator.
February 29, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap] love learning. It has always been a huge part of my life. Most of my earliest memories involve learning in some form. . . books, documentaries, and personal experimentation. But where I’ve learned the least is the same place…
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See the world through your own eyes, not Instagram’s
February 29, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s Friday morning, and you wake up with a smile, knowing you have a weekend to look forward to after class. You get up and dressed, have a decent breakfast, and leave your house at a reasonable hour. On the…
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Four tips for those addicted to distractions
February 29, 2016[dropcap]I [/dropcap]won’t lie. . . I sat down to write this article five different times. Each time, I ended up distracted. How ironic. Is it just me that struggles to accomplish what I actually set out to do in a…
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Technology disconnects us from our real lives
February 29, 2016Technology — in any form — is the kryptonite of most students I know. It’s the fertile breeding grounds for procrastination, fraught with click-bait, buzzing notifications, and constant stimulation. I feel myself fall prey to it all the time, and…
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Dawn of the pointless texting lanes
July 13, 2015Maybe some of your remember earlier this year when SFU released this year’s addition to its annual April Fool’s gag — a YouTube a video depicting hallway ‘traffic’ police, separating and maneuvering distracted texters through the ‘slow’ lane, while urging…
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