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Long Story Short: It’s OK to struggle with adjusting to a new academic environment
July 1, 2020By: Devana Petrovic, Staff Writer For most of high school, I was relatively strong academically. I mean, I never failed any classes and seemed to get by pretty easily, but I also was definitely not a top student. However, that doesn’t mean that I didn’t have strong views on what my strengths were and that I didn’t hold myself to certain standards. Since I spent the first two years of high school in an accelerated program clashing with highly competitive students, I internalized a lot of the unrealistic expectations that I saw in my peers. So, coming into university with a…
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Long Story Short: Drinking water doesn’t hydrate your skin
May 17, 2020By: Michelle Young, Staff Writer I start and end my days with my skincare routine. It’s the part of the day where I can indulge in some time to take care of myself. Gently cleansing and moisturizing my face seems…
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Long Story Short: Getting tattooed is like decorating an apartment
March 14, 2020By: Molly Lorette, SFU Student When I was younger, I had a bit of a phobia of needles. Whenever we had our vaccines in school, I would have major anxiety and would more than likely cry. Naturally, I never thought that…
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Long Story Short: a train ride taught me to slow down
January 5, 2020By: Kim Regala, Staff Writer It’s a Monday evening and I’m two hours into my four-hour class — my professor’s constant lecturing entering one ear and right away coming out the other. I feel my stomach gurgling and I realize…
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Long Story Short: Friend breakups can be as painful as romantic ones
November 11, 2019By Winona Young, Features Editor I’m in my room in Vancouver, scrolling through my Instagram feed. In the pale blue glow of my phone screen, I see the new post that she’s uploaded from New Orleans: a picture of herself…
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Long story short: You deserve to break free from cuffing season
October 24, 2019By: Vivien Ying Qi Li, SFU Student With cuffing season just around the corner, the number of couples I’ve seen roaming around campus has increased exponentially. It’s as if there’s some universal law out there that pulls people together…
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Molé, wiener schnitzel, and me: what it means to be biracial
September 25, 2019By: Marco Ovies, Staff Writer I was in high school and coming back from Europe. My family planned to pick me up at baggage claim, excited to hear all the stories from my two weeks abroad. I walked out…
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Claypot rice in cramped apartments: Reflecting on my cultural identity in Hong Kong
September 17, 2019By: Kitty Cheung, Peak Associate “I wanted to soak up and bring back as much of Hong Kong as I possibly could.” The first time I was called a “CBC,” I was having a conversation with my university Chinese instructor…
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Long story short: I have mixed thoughts about my study abroad experience
July 26, 2019By: Harvin Bhathal, SFU Student Studying abroad has been the defining experience of my short life so far. It has been a little over a year since I left England and the University of Essex to return home, and in that…
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Long story short: I learned to make friends with my future self by putting me first
July 16, 2019By: Kitty Cheung, Staff Writer Spring terms have usually been pretty shitty for me. School stress, combined with the wrath of allergy season, has typically led to burnout detrimental to both my physical and mental health. Ironically, during the spring…
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