Maximizing Your Summer
You may disagree with me on this, but summer is the greatest time of the year. In Canada, it means you’ve once again made it through the long gruelling winter, and are free to enjoy yourself! Temperatures are...
Applying for Summer Jobs? Your Favourite Hobby Can Help
Have you ever found yourself staring at your resume, unsure of what to write? Perhaps you are like me: flustered and irritated, wondering how you could possibly incorporate your beloved hobby of collecting global currency and...
5 Time Management Tips (from an Experienced Procrastinator)
I will soon to be entering my fourth year of university. So far, my school experience has been successful, largely due to me being able to overcome my proclivity to procrastinate. Time management is, unfortunately, not one...
Daylight Savings: Adapt and React
Daylight Savings is quickly approaching, and you know what that means - our clocks change but not in the direction we might like. In the middle of the night on March 10th, clocks move forward Read More
A Poem of Procrastination
Oh that I were someone who could get things done with ease
I could sit down, start working, finish and then go do as I please
Unfortunately, that’s just...
Works of Your Hands: Ideas for Making things on a Budget
I love making things. The more things I can create with my hands the happier I am. However being a student often leaves us with little time, space or money to make things. So while we...
Keeping Motivated for the Last Half of the Term
You’ve made it. You’re halfway done. Just two more months. Before you know it, you’ll be relaxing, backpacking through the mountains of Switzerland, or having absolutely nothing to do after a semester of hard work. The latter...
15 Random Acts of Kindness to do today
“I’m too busy.”
“I don’t have enough money.”
“I don’t even know what I’d do.”
These are some of the many reasons countless people, particularly students, choose not to participate...
The Student or the Traveller: How to Study while on Break
I know, I’ve been there. It’s your break. That’s supposed to actually mean taking a break from being a student. For many of us, this is generally the case. We spend the week relaxing,...
Best Things About Sharing Student Meals
As I sit in my house working this evening, the wonderful smell of a roasting chicken fills my nose; it's tantalizing and delicious and I know it’s going to be a good dinner. The best part is that...
My 4 Favourite Albums to Study to
Studying can be boring. It takes time, it’s difficult, and nobody really wants to do it. Music can be a great way to make studying more fun and allow you to study longer. The problem is that...
5 Tips for Your Best Midterm Season Yet
Ah, it’s that time of the term again. Midterms. The time of the term when our calendars are filling up with more and more readings and projects, all the while we have those...
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Let’s Talk
It’s Bell Let’s Talk day so let’s do some talking. The days are short, the weather is dreary and life and school is always busy and stressful this time of year. It’s a perfect storm of mental...
4 Questions to Ask Before Dropping a Course
To drop or not to drop… that is the question, or at least might be the question you’re asking yourself now that you’ve seen how your one professor is, or how hard a course is really going to...
Tips for Mastering Delivery in University Presentations
The sweat dripping off your brow. The legs you can’t stop shaking during the anticipation of "going next". The notes you have crumpled into a ball.
This is public speaking. If...
My Story – Succeeding in Undergrad
I am finishing my final semester in my undergraduate program in Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. As I look back and reflect on my university career, I’ve come to realize that the way I approach my work...