Taking Care of Your Mental Health as a Student
The topic of student mental health continues to gain attention. In today’s society, where there is ubiquitous competition in both the workplace and school, the level of stress keeps growing and accumulating. Taking care of your mental health...
How to Ace Your Next Exam
Exams...we’ve all been there. Whether it’s a quiz, test, midterm or final, you probably remember experiencing some levels of stress and anxiety, even if you know the material off by heart! Keep on reading for some exam writing...
Enriched Learning Programs
If you’re a high school student looking for something to do for the summer, wanting to meet like-minded students from all over the country or even the world, or expand on what you’re learning in school, then this...
Pressures of Athletic Success – An Athletically Inspired Educational Journey
Being a successful athlete, no matter what sport or level you play at, brings about pressure. The pressure to perform and to produce results. Pressure in moderation can be helpful as it creates discipline and the desire to practice to...
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Many different studies have proven again and again that women’s participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, or STEM, are much lower than men’s. For example, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, has shown that...
Reading Recreationally
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 Next Step (High School) – An Athletically Inspired Educational Journey
The time had finally arrived - the daunting transition from middle school into high school. A time in my life I remember so clearly. The weeks prior, fear and curiosities had started to creep into my mind about how the...
How to Study like a Pro
Whether you are in high school or university, learning how to study efficiently and maximize your time is valuable! Keep reading for some tips on how to study like a pro…
Keep an agenda
Give them Freedom: Whale Captivity
You have likely seen the classic 1993 movie, Free Willy. The captivating story of an orphaned boy named Jesse who befriends Willy, an uncooperative whale at a nearby marine park. After Willy saves Jesse...
When Midterms Approacheth
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...
Tips for University Applications
It is that time of the year again. Students who are finishing up their last year of high school are trying to figure out what they want to do after they graduate. It is a stressful time, and understandably so!...
Where It All Began – An Athletically Inspired Educational Journey
I have always been an athletically driven individual since the day I stepped foot on this earth. Athletics was the inspiration for almost everything I did as a young kid. Growing up in Canada, and like many Canadian children, I...
The World’s First Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace (born Augusta Ada Byron) is widely accepted as the world’s first computer programmer. Born in 1815, she was raised by her mother, Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, alone. Lady Byron separated from...
Travel the World
Have you ever dreamt of travelling the world?
Here are my top three reasons why I think everyone needs to travel…
Expand your knowledge
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how...
Making the Most of Conferences
If you’re thinking about attending a science conference, a networking event, or anything similar, it can be difficult to know how to prepare for it. And if you’ve never attended one of these events before, they can be...
Choose Philosophy, Choose Yourself
I am a Biology major pursuing a minor in Philosophy.
I am sure the question plagues your mind and haunts your sleep: But why?
What would possess a Science major to allocate...
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