What Grinds Our Gears
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 until it smacks you in the wallet are access codes for certain courses. Particularly people in the sciences, students will be familiar with a course requiring you to use your instructor’s code and an access code from the bookstore to sign in to an online site for assignments and practice. The problem with this is that even if you have…
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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…
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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: There’s no excuse for people who still don’t know how to recycle
June 1, 2019By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate I’m a strong believer in taking steps to save the environment. Not everybody is so proactive and I get that — we all have different life circumstances and beliefs. However, I do believe that if…
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The reflecting pond is not your trash can
May 17, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief After I wrote my last exam, I figured I needed some sunshine and fresh air to feel alive again, so I cut through the AQ’s courtyard. You know, the pretty one on all the promotional materials that…
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