What Grinds Our Gears
What Grinds Our Gears: SFU’s bookstore should be helping me find books
September 13, 2020by Sara Wong, Peak Associate 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 solely online, using VitalSource to assist students in tracking down ebooks that fulfill their course needs. This service is useless to me because a majority of the books I need are not available in a digital format. It’s also pointless because my professors tend to want students to have physical copies of the assigned books for…
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Sodium Podium IV
August 1, 2020By: Juztin Bello, Madeleine Chan, Meera Eragda, Jessica Garcia, Danielle Li, Marco Ovies, Devana Petrovic, Paige Riding, Joy Tian [caption id="attachment_115313" align="alignright" width="300"] Illustration: Tiffany Chan/The Peak[/caption] The BMI scale? More like the BMBYE scale CW: mention of weight, self-image Alright…
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What Grinds Our Gears: I need more respect from my intrusive family
July 12, 2020By: Alex Masse, SFU Student I have a very specific study ritual, one that works with my painfully neurodivergent brain: I move all my distractions, set up my phone to play 30 minutes of rain noises, and essentially hyperfocus. It’s been…
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What Grinds Our Gears: I’m out-pacing my computer with these datasets
June 14, 2020By: Nathan Tok, Peak Associate As I am writing this, my laptop is labouriously trying to load some data files for a class. And it is taking forever. Seriously? I am not a Big Data person or some hot shot…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Giving attitude to workers is a non-essential service
June 7, 2020By: Juztin Bello, Copy Editor I’m standing in line outside of a restaurant waiting to pick up some food my family ordered — making sure to be six feet apart from those around me, of course. Suddenly, a woman — a…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Could I get a little content to go with all these ads?
May 31, 2020By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Unprecedented times call for unprecedented media consumption. News articles, blogs, opinions pieces, factoids — like the borderline manic hypochondriac my mother always knew I’d grow up to be, I’m reading all of it. Or, at…
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What Grinds Our Gears: The WiFi in SFU Residence ghosts me more than my dates
May 24, 2020By: Paige Riding, News Writer When I lived on Residence this past school year — you know, before the world went to shit and everything closed or went online — I shared a common enemy with hundreds of SFU students. And…
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What Grinds Our Gears: I’m haunted by group project members ghosting in the chat
March 7, 2020By: Juztin Bello, Copy Editor It’s the first day of class and you’ve been forced into groups for a semester-long project — great start. You do the classic “none of us want to do this, so we’ll find solidarity in our…
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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…
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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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