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What Grinds Our Gears: These jerky bus rides are making me lose my mind — and my lunch
February 29, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer My ongoing experience of being on buses has featured drivers braking every two goddamn seconds for my twice-a-day hour-and-a-half commutes. I don’t know anymore if this is my life or if I’ve died and I’m in my own personal hell. If I’m standing, I’m being flung into the laps of strangers — and neither of us want me in their personal space. If I’m sitting, I’m either sliding practically off my seat, or the jerkiness of the brakes is literally making me nauseous. And no, I am NOT exaggerating this point. It’s gotten so bad that…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Constant fire alarms in Residences are testing my patience
February 15, 2020By: Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer It’s 10 p.m. on a weekend, and I’ve snuggled up in bed with all sorts of snacks to rewatch Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Ahh, cozy, right? WRONG. Because DING DING DING there goes the obnoxious, unplanned fire alarm…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Campus maps are aesthetically pleasing but useless for navigation
February 2, 2020By: Tiffany Chang, Peak Associate I think most people — if not everyone — has noticed how the maps of the SFU campuses all lack sufficient detail. It’s no secret that sparsely-labelled geometric shapes don’t actually help people navigate the many…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Logging into the SFU library catalogue . . . and then every journal under the sun
January 13, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Have you ever been writing a paper last minute, desperately trying to find academic sources, only to have the SFU library require that you sign into every external website you click on? The process is then…
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What Grinds Our Gears: How holiday gifting has turned into a capitalist chore
January 5, 2020By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer I’ve noticed something alarming this past holiday season. People rushed to get last minute gifts. They didn’t know what to buy, and just settled for the most convenient item. Wash, rinse, repeat. It’s a loop where…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Students who don’t understand the etiquette of a shared laundry room
November 3, 2019By: Paige Riding, News Writer The shared laundry rooms in the Towers are graveyards for long-lost left socks and the hometown of bacteria colonies. The white-washed walls below fluorescent hospital ward lighting are unavoidable for those practicing basic hygiene — so…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Why does flavour innovation stop at the pumpkin patch?
October 26, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Before Starbucks takes me in the dead of night and disposes of my body with such corporate efficiency that it’s never found, hear me out. I get it, pumpkin spice is delicious. I hear you: I had…
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What grinds our gears: Do us all a favour and stay home if you’re sick
October 13, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Dear Typhoid Mary, You know who you are. You’re the one who comes into class with a red nose and black-rimmed eyes, sits down, and immediately starts producing the deepest, wettest series of coughs that would…
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What grinds our gears: This shifting labyrinth of room changes and construction detours
October 7, 2019By: Carter Hemion, Staff Writer I’m SO lost in finding my classes. Why? Not only is SFU a maze of construction, but some of my classes just keep changing rooms. I expected to have some changes to my schedule because no…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Stop making us pay for access codes and broken web content
September 29, 2019By: Ahmed Ali, SFU Student As students, we already have a lot of expenses at SFU. Between just tuition and textbooks, we’re dropping over $2,000 per semester at least — more for international students. But another expense that you don’t expect…
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