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What I wish I knew on my first day at SFU
September 12, 2016[dropcap]I [/dropcap]recently completed my undergraduate degree and people aren’t joking when they say that achieving milestones makes you weirdly sentimental. Since summer semester ended, I have spent a lot of time reflecting on my past four years at SFU. When all you have to do in a day is sleep and eat, there is a lot of time to reflect. I’ve come up with a list of things that I wish I had known when I began my academic career at SFU. My hope is that these tips will help first-year students ease into what will be a challenging, yet…
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Game of Loans
July 4, 2016The success myth Many of us grow up with the assumption that education is the road to success. I certainly did. “Go to school, get a good education, and you’ll get a good job” is what I heard quite often.…
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The double life lived by student sex workers
May 24, 2016As Ava* embarks on the first semester of her master’s program, she is relieved that the admissions committee at her graduate school didn’t find out about one of her part-time jobs. The University of Calgary environmental sciences student dabbled in…
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Taking (many) of the roads less travelled
May 16, 2016[dropcap]T[/dropcap]o most of my friends, family, and others who run into me, I’m one of the few students who seems to have their shit together. I know exactly what I’m here for, how long it’ll take, which classes will take…
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SFU’s Chitter revolution
February 15, 2016What is Chitter? The Convocation Mall raccoons should watch out, because there’s a new woodland creature winning the hearts of SFU students: the bright blue squirrel of Chitter. A few months ago, someone told me about the new app. At…
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Registering for rage: SFU’s failed course enrolment system
January 25, 2016SFU has a major course registration problem [dropcap]C[/dropcap]ourse enrolment pisses me off. If seats are full we should have the option to either stand or bring our own stool to class,” read a recent comment posted on the SFU Confessions…
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Is Chitter the new SFU Confessions?
September 28, 2015As a busy student, one must explore various avenues that can aid in taking the edge off of university life. If all else fails, however, you can always count on a Facebook confessions page to release your frustrations. For some…
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How freshmen can make the most of their time in university
September 28, 2015In hindsight it’s all so clear, but looking forward, it’s as cloudy as a November morning in Vancouver. University is somewhat of a big deal, and as you go through it you become better at it. But for the newcomers…
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Strengthening northern Canada through an established university system
September 8, 2015We are lucky to live in the southern portion of Canada, as we have relatively decent weather, closely spaced communities, and easy access to postsecondary education. However, this is not the case for the majority of Canadians living in the…
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What’s this nonsense about lack of community at SFU?
September 8, 2015When I told my friends at UBC Okanagan three years ago that I would be attending SFU to study communication, I was met with distaste. “You know that SFU has the highest suicide rate in the whole country, right?” “It’s…
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