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What Grinds Our Gears: Dorm showers are part science lab, part horror show
September 22, 2019By: Paige Riding, News Writer The Pauline Jewett Tower is where I get to call home this school year. I knew, in theory, that the Towers have shared washrooms for the entire floor to use. What I didn’t know was that, while the co-op showers in these washrooms may only fit one person comfortably, they also contain some extra gifts no one signed up for. Picture a tastefully placed used condom gracing the floor of the stall. At minimum, three to four spiders and other buggy buddies provide emotional support during crying sessions. At this point, I’m not sure if…
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What grinds our gears: Lengthy introductions are a mind-numbing way to waste class time
September 14, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Hello, my name is Nicole. I’m in my fourth year. There’s nothing particularly interesting about me. My major is “very little patience for this activity,” with a minor in “let’s just start the lecture already.”…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Respect thy neighbour, noisy dorm residents
September 9, 2019By: Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer Dear rude neighbour: of course we all love our music, buddy. But while we’re at it, can we show our neighbours in the cramped dorms some respect by loving our headphones, too? Living in these tiny…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Aesthetically-pleasing seating that further wrecks my spine
July 21, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief I don’t know how everybody else teaches themselves entire classes off of Canvas syllabi or churns out essays, but I prepare for war. I sit down with my coffee, my playlist, a pile of library books, and…
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SFU Surrey Fire Fighters Computer Lab doors are a design nightmare
July 7, 2019By: Grace Lo, SFU Student Imagine this: you’re walking through the Mezzanine at SFU Surrey, headed for the computer labs. You’ve got an assignment due soon, a couple of things to print off, and you should — THUD. You lose…
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What grinds Our Gears: Why are students still sweltering through summer classes in 2019?
July 6, 2019By: Tiffany Chang, SFU Student You know what sucks? The lack of air conditioning on campus. As someone who sweats buckets whenever I’m at school during the summer, it downright pisses me off. Needless to say, summers in the last…
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It’s time to purge points cards from our lives
June 22, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor These days, it seems as though I have more random junk in my wallet than actual money, credit cards included. Stacks of old receipts from three years ago, politely accepted business cards, and library cards…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Computers that let you down at the worst possible time
June 16, 2019By: Yasmin Khalili, SFU Student It’s 8:30 p.m. The time has really flown by. You told yourself you wouldn’t procrastinate this hard ever again, but at least last time you started at 7 p.m, and now, now it’s 8:32 p.m.…
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What grinds our gears: high sodium mega compilation
June 7, 2019Byline: Kitty Cheung, Kelly Chia, Jennifer Low, Gabrielle McLaren, Nicole Magas, Onosholema Ogoigbe, Winona Young The NASTY future of the SUB’s napping room People are gonna jerk off in the new napping room. There! I said it! That reality is…
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What grinds our gears: Clueless students who argue with the prof
March 25, 2019Written by: Ben McGuinness, SFU Student That one guy’s hand shoots up, even though a few seconds ago he was slouched in his chair scrolling through Instagram. The professor keeps using a term that he isn’t familiar with and wants…
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