Features
Students talk Lunar New Year
February 4, 2020By: Madeleine Chan, Kelly Chia, Vivien Ying Qi Li I have come to realize that the Lunar New Year represents a renewal of sorts for me. Every Lunar New Year, my paternal grandparents treat my family and I to a meal at a Chinese restaurant. This isn’t your stereotypical orange chicken and chow mein, though. This isn’t even your standard sharing of dishes like Beef with Fried Rice Noodle (Dry) or Yang Chow Fried Rice. No, this is the FANCY stuff — the kind of stuff that white people gawk at when they hear that it’s a thing that people actually…
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Health & Counselling executives discuss barriers to access, appointment procedures, and their mission to “make care about the client”
February 3, 2020By: Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer What might students expect when they make a mental health appointment with SFU Health & Counselling? The Peak had a chance to conduct an in-person interview with Martin Mroz, Director of SFU’s Health & Counselling Services,…
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Ranking the Burnaby campus microwaves
January 30, 2020By: Vivien Ying Qi Li, Peak Associate Although SFU provides a variety of different food options for students to purchase on campus, sometimes I just want to bring meals from home. After all, it’s cheaper, more convenient, and nobody can make sweet…
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The hidden treasures at the Shelf of Reciprocity
January 29, 2020By: Kim Regala, Staff Writer [caption id="attachment_112977" align="alignnone" width="640"] Photo taken by Kim Regala[/caption] Across the Burnaby Rotunda and in front of the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group’s (SFPIRG) office rests an assortment of books and cardboard boxes overflowed…
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Hot campus cocoa
January 26, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Lower Mainlanders, we were not made for the snow. The week I wrote this, getting to campus was an intimidating prospect. If not the ever-looming threat of being stranded on the mountain, there was also…
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Adulthood 101: Staying on top of your work this semester
January 22, 2020By: Vivien Ying Qi Li, SFU Student Having started the new semester, students are slowly getting back into the swing of things — meaning that all-nighters and last-minute cramming sessions are just around the corner. Although stress is an inevitable…
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Resources for Australian bushfire relief
January 21, 2020By: Kelly Chia, Features Editor As of the time this article is being written, 10.7 million hectares have been burnt in Australia. The Guardian reports that 1,700 homes have been lost, and 23 people have died due to the bushfires…
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A n-year degree program was the right one for me
January 20, 2020By: Amneet Mann, Peak Associate As a dorky inside joke in engineering, we classify students as being in their first, second, third, fourth, or nth year. Representing an unknown numerical variable, n is meant to cover undergraduate students from year five to,…
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Best comfy spots at SFU Burnaby
January 14, 2020By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer Picture this: You’re on the mountain. Maybe you’re between classes and want to do some readings — or at least, attempt to. Maybe you want to take a power nap before your next four-hour lecture.…
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Musing on my experiences in BC as a French exchange student
January 12, 2020By: Noé Baudouin, SFU Student “Good morning passengers, we’re now 24,000 feet above ground on our way to Denver,” exclaims the pilot through the microphone. It is 11:35 a.m. and I am on my way to France to celebrate Christmas…
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