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Long story short: My journey into the exclusive world of wellness taught me to check my privilege
June 17, 2019By: Molly Johnston, SFU Student I have a confession to make: I drank the green Kool-Aid and bought into the oh-so-exclusive club of wellness. Ever since I can remember, I have struggled with chronic stomach pain — a persistent discomfort accompanied at times by heartburn so bad that it could often be hard to breathe. After twenty-something years of being bounced from specialist to specialist, I was given the ever ambiguous diagnosis of IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) which is basically medspeak for “we don’t know why but your bowels are just easily irritated.” The solution? Try cutting out different foods and…
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Long story short: Going to the gym means you need to know how to laugh at yourself
June 14, 2019By: Jennifer Low, Features Editor Until last semester, I’d never gone to SFU’s gym regularly . . . actually, I’d never been to the gym regularly, period. I tried going a few times here and there but never felt that it…
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Long story short: if you are lost, drunk, and alone, I am your mother now
May 24, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief One of the unexpected outcomes of working at The Peak is that you spend a lot of time on campus late at night, notably on Fridays when we make the paper. Burnaby Mountain is actually quite…
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Long story short: Don’t tell me to get back on the horse
March 11, 2019By: Dilpreet Tatla “You’re getting off the horse again?” This is a metaphor in my life that taunts me, because the first time I ever rode a horse (or at least tried), fear took over. I gave up and got…
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Long story short: I’m too exhausted to be a workaholic anymore
January 28, 2019By: Hailey Findlay In my first year of university, I developed my first addiction: coffee. It wasn’t so much that I liked the taste. What I really latched onto was more the wide-eyed, jittery energy. If I scheduled my cups just right,…
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Long Story Short: Help is available
November 24, 2018By: Youeal Abera, Staff Writer I’ve always been a person who takes pride in my work ethic. Whether it was at school or at work, I’ve made sure to be diligent in the tasks set before me. For the most part,…
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Long story short: Cutting my hair set me free
November 10, 2018By: Simran Randhawa We live in a society which puts extra pressure on women to look and act a certain way. I come from India, a society where there’s a little more tradition behind the societal pressure and where the…
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Long story short: When life gives you strangers, make puns
October 30, 2018By: Melanie Hiepler Making friends takes effort — that’s one of the first life lessons I learned on exchange a few summers ago. I was in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, for Charles University's Central and Eastern…
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Long story short: The best SFU experience goes beyond the lecture hall
September 28, 2018By: Youeal Abera, Staff Writer I vividly remember navigating campus on the first day of my undergraduate career — running from class to class, frantic to find out which building I was expected to be in . . . Truth…
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Long story short: Once upon a time there was a little boy with a spool of thread . . .
May 30, 2018By: Amal Javed Abdullah I received news only a few days ago that a friend, a graduate student full of life and ambition, just passed away. For me, as I enter the month of Ramadan, this story really serves as…
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