Nathaniel Tok
What Grinds Our Gears: Sodium Podium
November 24, 2019By: Juztin Bello, Madeleine Chan, Kelly Chia, Gabrielle McLaren, Nicole Magas, Marco Ovies, Nathaniel Tok, Winona Young This first-year class cost you $500, the least you could do is pay attention! As a fourth year filling up her breadth courses with first year classes, I have made some observations, and I am worried. As I sit in these godforsaken lecture halls with these ridiculously tiny desks, I can’t help but look around at the people stuck here with me. All I see are freshmen with varying levels of apathy. Look, I too get tired in class — the notes that I’ve…
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Overly friendly professor destroys students’ lives for forgetting to call him by first name
November 6, 2019Written by Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate Assistant professor Michael McManfred, a recent hire for the Department of Legal, Ethical, and General Investigative Technology (LEGIT), has been censured by the university for destroying the well-being of his first year LEGIT 105…
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What SFU Needs: Vending machines that cater to any situation
October 6, 2019By: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate If you've walked down the main hallway of the Applied Science Building or Academic Quadrangle, you may have seen those old and sad vending machines selling pop, chips, and various other junk food snacks. But is…
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SFU student fails
July 12, 2019By: Kitty Cheung (Staff Writer), Mishaa Khan, Vivien Ying Qi Li, Jennifer Low (Features Editor), Nathaniel Tok I fell into the Academic Quadrangle (AQ) Pond… and it’s kind of my fault Over my time here at SFU, it’s become something of…
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Survival guide: Talking about Game of Thrones
May 20, 2019Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate "What did you think about Game of Thrones last night?” Freeze. Take a deep breath and look contemplative before you spiral into panic because you've never watched this show. After eight straight years of…
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Four places you CAN’T visit on vacation and four you CAN
May 17, 2019Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate Illustration by: RESLUS Remember when summer used to be fun? Seriously, I cannot remember the last time I took summer off, and I’m sure you can’t either. Instead of crying together, I made a…
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Long Distance Communication – Parent Translate
March 14, 2019Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate Ever wanted get your parents off your back about what you “should be doing”? Introducing... Parent Translate! It’s Google Translate except it translates your lame excuses to credible, intelligent-sounding rationalizations so that your parents…
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A warning letter from the future
January 28, 2019What would you warn yourself about from the end of the semester? Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate Dear four-month-younger Nathaniel, Hi there, bud! It’s been four awesome months at school. The buses reach the station just in time for…
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Crowdfunding for alternative medicine treatments may harm cancer patients
January 21, 2019Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate In early January, an SFU health sciences professor and a University of Alberta health law and policy professor published a paper on the negative effects crowdfunding has on cancer treatment. Jeremy Snyder from SFU and Timothy Caulfield from UAlberta…
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Staying In: Special Edition (Extra Credits and The Get Down)
January 11, 2019By: Nathaniel Tok and Winona Young Extra Credits Best for: Gamers, History buffs, Poli-sci majors Learning history should be fun, and you can make sure of that with the YouTube Channel Extra Credits. The channel releases a wide range of…
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