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Top ten ways to cope with the beginning of another semester

Maya Beninteso May 9, 2022

Denial What semester? This summer you’ll be tanning blissfully at the beach, laughing at the people signing up for another summer of the same school-related stress and poorly air-conditioned lecture halls. Instead of completing required readings, you’ll be reading a book — one that isn’t non-fiction and could double as a sleep aid.   Cry. Let it all out. Your summer of freedom should be mourned. So grab your favorite snacks and your guilty pleasure TV series that you’ve watched too many times, and have a nice cry. While scrolling through social media when you should be studying, you’ll likely…

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What Grinds Our Gears: Keeping cookware in the fridge

Jacob Mattie September 27, 2021

If you’re like me and have very little disposable income, chances are you do a lot of your own cooking — and by association, the cleanup as well.  You may, then, at some time or another, find yourself looking at…

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What Grinds Our Gears: SFU’s bookstore should be helping me find books

Sara Wong September 13, 2020

Having the correct copy of a required course reading is extremely important. That’s why I primarily rely on the SFU Bookstore when purchasing my course materials. However, for the second semester in a row, the bookstore has elected to operate…

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How Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” predicted the Trump presidency

Vincent Justin Mitra November 21, 2016

Popular singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, known for songs such as “Love Story” and “Shake it Off,” has been revealed to be gifted with powers of precognition beyond that of mortal man, after it came to light that she had warned the…

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Ten horror movies you’ve never heard of

Vincent Justin Mitra October 24, 2016

Pontypool This Canadian zombie film follows Grant Mazzy, a former big city radio shock jock who is reassigned to a station in the small unincorporated village of Pontypool, Ontario. With a blizzard raging outside, Grant and his co-workers decide to…

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BrainDead puts a funny sci-fi twist on American politics

Vincent Justin Mitra September 6, 2016

Politics in the United States have been rather extreme lately, and it is because mind-controlling space ants have eaten the brains of members of Congress. At least according to BrainDead, a show which premiered in mid-June of this year. BrainDead,…

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Five reality shows that deserve a comeback

Vincent Justin Mitra June 20, 2016

Reality shows tend to get a bad reputation. They're called repetitive, vapid, self-indulgent, and inauthentic; shallow popularity contests for the simple-minded.  While that may be true of some or many of the reality shows that have come and gone, there…

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