Trevor Roberts
Enrolment dates: Exposed
July 7, 2019Written by: Trevor Roberts, Peak Associate It’s that time of year again. After weeks of uneasy waiting, the students of SFU finally receive their enrolment dates. While often dismissed as inconsequential, a person’s enrolment date is often the difference between them spending ridiculous amounts of time and money on something they hate and them spending ridiculous amounts of time and money on something they strongly dislike. Yet, the university’s explanation of using things like GPA, units completed, and scholarships to calculate these dates has kept the truth about how these dates are allocated hidden from students for years. It is…
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RATE MY STUDENT
May 29, 2019Written by: Trevor Roberts, Peak Associate Armin Sidhu – CMPT 371 Ability: 5.0 Teachability: 1.0 EXTREMELY frustrating to deal with, practically skipped EVERY lecture, only attended the midterm and final exam,,, like WTF?! Even after I made SEVERAL posts…
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All the places I’ve never been!
March 6, 2019By: Trevor Roberts, Peak Associate Another Reading Break has come and gone and you did absolutely nothing the entire time. Don’t think your entire break is lost though. You can still make yourself look cool with just one word: deception.…
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Leaked memo reveals inter-faculty due date stacking conspiracy
February 20, 2019By: Trevor Roberts, Peak Associate Burnaby Campus, 9:03am SFU students are up in arms after an anonymous whistle-blower leaked a memo sent to professors, definitively proving what was once regarded as a baseless conspiracy theory. Professors in every SFU faculty…
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What grinds our gears: Escalator etiquette-breakers
January 29, 2019Written by: Trevor Roberts, Peak Associate Escalators. They’re loud, they’re expensive, and if they’re in a SkyTrain station they break down all the time. But they’re not that hard to use. There is one rule to using an escalator: stand on the right, walk…
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A Guide to Dropping Classes
January 25, 2019Written by: Trevor Roberts, Peak Associate First-year students, academic underachievers, and those experiencing memory loss related to the trauma of last semester are especially prone to be lulled into a false sense of security after a week free from tutorials,…
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Grumble: Dating app for group projects
January 23, 2019Written by: Trevor Roberts, Peak Associate Hate group projects? The answer to your academic qualms is the world’s first group project “dating” app: Grumble! Grumble connects you with the top group members in your class (and the bottom ones, and…
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Transit Talk: Your bus won’t come on time, even with a snowless winter
January 6, 2019After several wet, cold, class-cancellation snow falls over the past few years, it looks like the upcoming months may be a much-needed break from the slush-winter/smoke-summer rotation in the Greater Vancouver area. It’s welcome news for most, but there is…
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Seth Rogen’s deleted transit announcements
October 8, 2018Written by: Trevor Roberts Unless you’re one of those people that drives to school every day (yes, I said those people) you’ve probably heard one of Seth Rogen’s marginally humourous transit-etiquette announcements. Love them or hate them, you may be…
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Canada’s Newest Parties
September 24, 2018Written by: Trevor Roberts The next Canadian federal election is scheduled to occur no later than October 13 of next year, and if 2015 taught us anything, it’s that the campaign could easily start any day now. Whether you are…
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