Goodnight chair. Goodnight paper. Goodnight pen. Goodnight screen. Goodnight lecture theatre. Since my first year of university, I have had 5 night classes, 3 of which are in this semester. Night classes, especially when you commute from far away and…
Dude, Where’s Your Phone?
The last two weeks have been a little crazy for me, in between trying to deal with the impending dooms-deadline-day that is next Thursday, to a family emergency, it’s been really rough. Coming back to my dorm room after an…
Thanksgiving: Family, Friends, Food, and Fresh Starts
With a whole month of school behind me, and a whole bunch of assignments before me, the Thanksgiving long weekend was a welcome break to an already super busy year. Catching up with family and friends over some really delicious…
Campus Media
Oh media, how I love you. Not in like a high-school-luv kind of way where your initials would be inscribed on every desk and notebook, but in a truly madly deeply kind of way. While I’m not quite majoring in…
Yes, I’m crying. Why do you ask?
Sometimes the best thing you can do about school is cry. I mean it. When you have three papers due within three days and your brain refuses to construct a single coherent sentence, crying is perhaps the only thing…
Embracing Fall
Fall, autumn, whatever you want to call it – I absolutely love the weather during this time of year. There’s nothing like feeling that warm sun on your face as the cool, crisp air refreshes your senses. Fall is the…
Tweeting your way to student engagement
Are you on Twitter? If not, you should be. To me Twitter is more than just another dumb social network (although it can totally seem like it sometimes) but a way for a person to stay constantly informed and up-to-date…
getting my bbq on.
WARNING: this post does contain Carly Rae Jepsen and Owl Man, please proceed with caution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agluuflcpos First off, welcome to all our new bloggers! Looking forward to working with all of you! 🙂 If you're like me, you like…
Day Use Lockers — A Practical Remedy for Book Hoarding
I used to live ten minutes from off campus, but last April my family moved out of town to greener pastures. I got alot of “the commutes going to kill you” and “you’ll be wishing you never moved after you…
H(e)art House
While I’ve previously talked about finding myself, what I’m studying and how my college has helped me come to terms with who I am and what I hope to do, one of the places on campus that had an important…