At a recent ASC team retreat, we decided to put our metaphorical money were our…metaphorical mouths are…& to Get Writing!!!  One of our counsellors, Victoria Littman, even ended up writing a poem about the work we do.

Ode to the Academic Success Centre

Come argue with us in a safe enclave.  
Come take risks and grow.
Come engage your enthusiasm, collaboratively finding brilliance. 
Come seek modes of inquiry, exploring free expression.

Use laughter and creativity to create threads
Woven through rigorous academic skill development 
Hooked together with discipline-specific discourse.

Come play with accessible learning and knowing 
In its widest and wildest sense. 
Inhabit learning, slip into a new coat of curiosity  
To demystify and drape a veil over anxiety.

Open boundaries while you discover autonomy
Behind the closet of self reliance,
Sharing with your neighbor.

Come discover the process of creating knowledge and learning
To know, as we dust off this Academy together.