New Year
New year, no resolutions, just reflections on life
January 9, 2025I ended 2023 and started 2024 in what I can only describe now as a miserable situation. I was living in a place where I no longer felt comfortable, and was becoming unsafe. However, despite my misery, I remained for about six months — the last three of 2023 and the first three of 2024. Back then, I was looking at other places to move to, but I always found a reason not to: “It’s too far away from work,” “The room looks too small for my bed and desk,” “The building looks too old.” I kept finding reasons not…
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New Year’s resolutions are counterproductive to self-growth
January 9, 2025Content warning: mental illness, brief mention of suicide. The beginning of the year is a short-lived period of optimism that makes us believe change is within our reach. Many of us welcome the new year by promising we will become…
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Bright-er Side: The magic of New Years
January 23, 2024The clock strikes midnight, and suddenly you’re stuck in this moment. As the mixture of confetti and glitter dances around the sky with champagne bottles popping left and right, your life resets. The time when you eased the anxiety of…
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New year, same old hateful me
January 15, 2024Roses are red, violets are blue, I hate everything, why don’t you? Dear readers, as I lay in bed this whole winter break, the beautiful poem mentioned before played harmoniously throughout my head daily. It reminded me of all the…
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One prediction for each month of 2024
January 8, 2024January: The Peak will NOT publish an issue to start the semester Face it — everyone’s tired, we’re still hungover from the holidays, and another semester is about to start. We’re not doing any work. My brain feels like it’s…
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New Year, Same Old Me?
January 10, 2023What are your goals? At the beginning of a new year, it’s difficult not to succumb to the pressures of maximizing your success in the coming year. Our Instagram feeds become flooded with overly positive content coaching us on how…
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Creative Corner: My 2023 vision board
January 10, 2023The winter break holds the liminal space before a new year that always inspires introspection, but this year I decided against writing resolutions. I often feel pressured by productivity culture to set rigid standards for myself, so they don’t work…
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Top Ten loopholes for your New Year’s resolutions
January 12, 2022“Save more money” People are always so stressed about money. Saving this, spending that, “there’s no room in the budget for a 16 ft statue of you sir.” But our problem lies not in our obsession with money but in…
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Students talk Lunar New Year
February 4, 2020I 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…
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My favourite books from 2017
January 6, 2018The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this exceptional novel follows Starr Carter, a sixteen-year-old living in a poor neighbourhood and attending an upscale high school across town, whose life is full of…
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