Bird’s Eye View: The lost art of note taking
As we abandon cursive writing for the curse of keyboarding, are we losing touch with how to learn? I received a letter from an old roommate the other day. She’s from Belfast and we try to keep in contact as much as possible. We Skype and send the odd Facebook message and, once in a [...]
Electronic textbooks may not be the cheap and light replacements to heavy and expensive ones you were hoping for Student book bags are due to get a lot lighter as those beefy textbooks get the shove into the 21st century. The electronic reader – or e-reader – has already proven people are willing to make [...]
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Third-year student opens up about his unconventional education and what it taught him He was only five years old when he had his first homeschool class with his father. In that lesson, Thomas Finley Mackay-Boyce and his sister learned about the artist Jackson Pollock. The lesson was far from conventional. At the end of it, [...]
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At six in the morning the birds are my only company. I lean against the old, stonewall and listen to the chirps and sounds of flapping wings high above me. I am alone in the small temple outside of town and indulge in the beauty of the 15-metre Buddha statue towering over my head. His [...]
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The code. We all live by one whether we realize it or not and it governs the way we interact with members of the opposite sex. There’s the ever-popular Bro Code, made famous by one Mr. Barney Stinson, and then, there’s the girl code. It has existed forever, is seldom talked about, and hardly makes [...]
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I wasn’t really sure what to do with myself on move-in day of university. I was equal parts tired, nervous and excited. I picked up my welcome week kit from an upper-year student in the cafeteria of my new home. I was proud of the answer I gave the girl in the yellow shirt when [...]
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As he readies for what should be his final campaign, Frederiction’s mayor reflects on what he has learned and what St. Thomas means to him The walls of the corner office in Fredericton’s City Hall are surprisingly simple for a room that’s housed the same occupant for 21 years.For most of that time, only two [...]
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The untold story of how a horrific virus outbreak turned the Canadian University Press conference into the zombie apocalypse The gala “Are you guys all feeling okay?”It was Jason Schreurs, co-coordinator of the conference. He’s always looked a bit older than a university student, but he soon started to sound like it too. He told [...]
Continue reading …Your six-week old baby has been crying since 8 p.m. She’s going through her six-week growth spurt where she needs to be continually feeding – from you, you’re the one with the breasts – and it’s now three in the morning and she’s still hungry, which means she’s still crying for more milk. Meanwhile you [...]
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It was the Magic: The Gathering game of Frank Jr. Molley’s life. After 10 hours of fast and hard Magic, the pro-tour qualifier in Montreal took Molley for all he had. He went 0-9 and fell short of his dream to travel the world playing the game he loves. Frustrated, Molley left the Lions Club [...]
Continue reading …Heather MacInnis, a 25-year-old St. Thomas University student, has been living with cystic fibrosis all her life. Before she left on Jan. 3 for Toronto to undergo a double-lung transplant, she wrote a letter on New Year’s Eve. It read: I’m not sure how to say this…but this relationship is over. We have always had [...]
Continue reading …Backstory: As The AQ’s Laura Brown discovered this summer, a house doesn’t always make a home
January 10, 2012 Comments Off
It was the end of my third day at work and I realized I was dreading the walk home. When I got there, I walked directly up the two flights of stairs to my room, trying to avoid a run-in with any of my eight roommates. That became my routine for the next month. Have [...]
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