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Between tuition and textbooks, being a student can cost a lot. But there are some companies offering benefits only to students. It can be their marketing effort trying to entice you to their products early on so you use them after school, but if they are standard in your industry there might be no harm […]

Finding a job after graduation can be one of the greatest challenges for international students. There are many variables—such as deadlines, interviews, emails, resumes, and cover letters—to be taken into consideration. All this needs to be done in a different language and culture, which can be overwhelming for us. So here are some tips for […]

If you’re a human being, you’ve experienced stress. If you’re a student, you probably have a menu of stressors we like to call “deadlines,” with a side dish of part-time work and a serving of interpersonal turmoil for dessert. Stress helps us accomplish goals, meet deadlines, and develop as people, but we also need strategies to […]

The clash of pots and pans; the sound of a steak searing on a scorching hot skillet; the aromas of butter, rosemary, and sage filling the air. This to me is nothing short of divine, the organized chaos that fills my house on a regular basis. Cooking came out of necessity for me, but then […]

Not long ago I spoke about the communication funnel we can experience when ruminating on past conversations, the funnel often used to lament or predict the future with spent words of our former self. But what if our former selves were alive, their words burning so fiercely that a fiery lake surrounds the present us? […]

The Outdoor Learning Commons is a relatively new addition to Camosun’s Lansdowne campus; the cluster of cement tables outside By the Books is only a few weeks old. While the idea itself appears efficient, there is one serious concern: the lack of accessible spots for those in wheelchairs and other people with mobility concerns. Of […]

So, you’ve started your first year of college, and everything is priority number one to you. Assignments, quizzes, group work, book buying, and all the awful little details you forgot are at the top of your list. You need to knock these off one by one before you can tackle socializing, sleeping, eating, or even […]

Many people ask me what led me to leave my country, my family, and my culture behind to come and live in Canada. The truth is that every international student has a different answer to why they made that decision; in my case, I left my country in search of better opportunities in the labour […]

A huge breakthrough in the world of gene editing is a tool known as CRISPR, or “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.” CRISPR guides enzymes to certain places in a genetic code where they can cut the DNA. Then the cells repair the genes, or other pieces of genetic code can be inserted. Another recent […]

As woke as I am, I am also desensitized to the daily chip-aways I experience as a woman. Even when they happen, I don’t speak up as much as I should. This was brought to my attention recently when I went to the pharmacy with a friend to refill a prescription.  I walked to the […]