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Leading up to October, there was a ton of hype around the popular Guild Wars 2. A massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), it’s a huge online game in which the player creates an avatar and is thrown into a digital realm with thousands of other players with the task of levelling up, completing quests, […]

As I traipse through the 24-hour grocer on a late-night hunger-fuelled purchase-capade, I jaunt past the refrigeration cabinets stocked with cured meats. Then I double back. Sandwiched between Vienna sausage and Italian ham is a package of tiny Vienna sausages shaped like octopus, complete with edible smiley faces. Despite their innocent grins compelling me to […]

What is time, anyway? I want to pinpoint this question down very narrowly because time seems to be this illusion that never stays on track. When I need time, I don’t have it; when I don’t need time, time seems to stand still. Always. I know this sounds very metaphysical. I only ask because there […]

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,” wrote Rainer Maria Rilke, the German poet best known for his inspiring letters and mystical visions of the transformative power of art. If there were ever an advocate for why literature matters, surely Rilke was one. Born in Prague in […]

I am a student and a writer, and I love to read. I used to loot bookcases of relatives just to indulge my addiction. Of course, now that it’s mandatory I can’t keep up. In my bag are books from all my courses; there’s a whole contingent of D2L words to absorb, read, attend, and […]

The video game League of Legends (LoL), recently wrapped up its yearly World Championship in Berlin. The event was at the Mercedes-Benz arena, filled with a sold-out crowd of 30,000 passionate fans. LoL is a game where two teams of five players face off against each other in a battle to destroy the other team’s […]

Ever since leaving Canada I’ve felt an ache in my chest, pleading to be soothed by a balm of maple syrup and pancake mix and a gauze of back bacon. Though I rarely consume these things at home, my cravings seem to be a symptom of cultural identity. Being a first-generation Canadian daughter of an […]

“I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands,” wrote John Singer, a deaf mute who is at the center of Carson McCullers’ beautiful novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Set in the depression-era south, the novel follows the lives of several townspeople who revolve around the mild-mannered Singer, each driven, […]