Get a Life! Cheap Student Entertainment (Part 3)
Get outside! There’s nothing more fun than acting like a kid again – find toboggans or krazy karpets forcheap in the spring, and after heavy snowfalls the following winter grab your friends for a few hours on the hills.Get a cheap kite and spend the day at a park. See if you can get the thing […] Read More >
Get a Life! Cheap Student Entertainment (Part 5)
Enjoy casual street fun Take time to appreciate street artists in Busker Festivals in your part of the world. [For Canadians, catch the busker festival in Halifax, Street Performers Festival in Edmonton, Celebrate Toronto Street Festival, Saskatoon International Fringe Festival, Visit www.festivalseeker.com for a complete listing of festivals across Canada.] Laugh a lot for little. Attend […] Read More >
Get a Life! Cheap Student Entertainment (Part 6)
Sources to find more cheap fun Free weekly newspapers offer listings of inexpensive or free events going on in your city. Right on campus you’ll find loads of inexpensive entertainment ideas. Pick up your student newspaper for listings of plays, recitals, art shows, sports games, special lectures, or readings. Keep your eyes up! Check out poster boards on […] Read More >
How to study, write and learn from multiple choice exams
by University of Victoria’s Counselling Services Often students anticipate their first multiple choice exam to be simply a matter of recognising true statements. However, experience with these exams shows students that they are often asked to do more than just recognise textbook material. Multiple choice questions require fine distinctions between correct and nearly-correct statements. They learn that […] Read More >
Profile: Catherine
Spiritual snapshot Facing my “ugly self” I can’t remember a time when I didn’t talk to God. Maybe this had something to do with the fact that believing in God and going to church were just a natural thing in my family’s daily life. I like my life as it is now. The thing is […] Read More >
Profile: Justine
Choosing my major: In high school I had two teachers who cared enough to give us an assignment to research more about a field we might be interested in. If it weren’t for those assignments, I probably wouldn’t have thought too seriously about what I wanted to do in university until I got there. For […] Read More >
Study Skills: Choose a Good Study Area
by Anik Singal The most typical place to study (aside from one’s dorm room) is the library. The library seems like the obvious and perfect solution of “where to study.” What if someone told you that studying in a library is almost as bad as studying in your own room, assuming you are easily distracted […] Read More >
What does your dirty laundry reveal about your personality?
Believe it or not, your dirty laundry can be quite revealing. Not the kind of dirty laundry that makes tabloid headlines — the real stuff, the dirty clothes that lurk in your hamper and seem to grow into piles of mind-boggling dimensions in no time at all. When faced with the never-ending task of laundry, […] Read More >