by Amina | Mar 10, 2017 | Applications, Clubs, Student Life
At the tail-end of high-school, many of my peers decided grade 12 was the time to make extracurricular commitments. University and college admissions would be looking for community involvement… Scholarship judges and committees would be be looking for...
by Amina | Mar 1, 2017 | General, Student Life
At this point in the term, you are probably hitting a wall. You may have missed a few classes…or weeks of classes. You may have missed a handful of assignments…a couple of tutorials perhaps. You may even be re-thinking your degree. University / college...
by Amina | Feb 20, 2017 | Reading week, Sleep, Study tips
Reading week, Spring break, Revision week, Dead week…these are the many names for this week. Per their names, during this time you ought to either read, spring, revise, or dead. Names aside, for me, this is a time when academic and physical recuperation are top...
by Amina | Feb 8, 2017 | Self-care, Student Life
Lorelai: “Okay, uh, listen, I’m going to go out and get the paper.” (We are in season 3, episode 21 of Gilmore Girls “Here Comes the Sun”. I realise that the line isn’t much to look at, but I implore that you stay. Back to today’s scheduled programming.) Lorelai...
by Amina | Feb 3, 2017 | Exams, Student Life, Study tips
Presently, I am not at school and, yet, by some miracle, I seem to know that it is midterm season. Something — something — in the air evokes dreamy visions of stoic proctors making pilgrimage along rows and columns of decaying desks, the scratching...
