Hannah Davis
What (not) to do when your friends are all getting engaged
July 22, 2019Illustrated by: Alice Zhang So your friends are all getting engaged without you? So you were minding your own damn business and doing the classic “reviewing lecture notes while browsing Instagram” study technique when your eyes were assaulted by a horrible vision of yet another friend who has now embarked on their happy path to marriage? So you’re tearing up but you’re not sure if it’s from panic or joy? You’re lucky you’ve stumbled across this article, because we have some helpful tips on what not to do in this situation. Do not compare your life to theirs and wonder…
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What if being a student paid minimum wage?
April 1, 2019Participants: Hannah Davis, Mishaa Khan, Gabrielle McLaren, Sakina Nazarali, and Amena Salman. Have you ever filled in a form and listed your occupation as “student”? The irony of this hit me last semester: an occupation is a job or a…
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KIN GAMES 2019: Conference in Review
March 29, 2019Hannah Davis: The KIN Games is an annual kinesiology conference aiming to unite Canadian university students through three adrenaline-fuelled days filled with sports, dance, academics, spirit challenges, and social events. Teams from different schools across the country, including SFU, assembled…
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SFSS candidates you might have missed
March 20, 2019It is election season once again, and The Peak is so excited to be covering the wonderful and promising platforms of some of this year’s candidates. Name: (I don’t want people to vote for my name . . . just…
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Free menstrual products in New Westminster schools is fantastic, and should go further than high school
March 18, 2019When I heard New Westminster would be offering free menstrual supplies across its elementary and high schools, I was proud that my hometown would be the first school district in B.C. to adopt this new policy. The way they’re being…
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International Women’s Day compilation : Unfortunate encounters where men could have done better
March 8, 2019By: Hannah Davies, Lily Fontaine, Gabrielle McLaren, Natasha Tar, Lauren Wallace, Winona Young Luckily, I’ve been mansplained to relatively few times. While I do obviously find it mildly insulting and quite frustrating despite trying not to let it get to…
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What grinds our gears: Getting a caffeinated drink when you ordered decaf
March 6, 2019You know those people who annoyingly brag about switching to decaf? Well, that’s me now. Maybe I decided that I do not always want to be filled with a constant, albeit non-crippling, level of caffeine-fuelled anxiety. Maybe I was hoping…
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Extraordinary Student Homes
March 5, 2019Here at The Peak, we were lucky enough to have been given tours of some of the most incredible student homes in Vancouver. The following are true experiences of renters in the area, exposing the wondrous beauty one is subjected…
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Reggie Watts: A Jack of All Trades Entertainer
February 22, 2019Imagine a child, standing silently on the edge of a playground, bundled in a coat covered in “[dangly] buttons.” A different child approaches and pulls on one of the jacket’s adornments. The boy in the coat responds unpredictably, in…
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We aren’t taught nearly enough about how to avoid plagiarism
February 22, 2019One of my biggest fears in handing in an assignment is that I unknowingly committed plagiarism, boldly claiming ideas or words as my own without even being aware of it. It seems that most university students know how to avoid…
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