Tools for Reviving a Reading Habit
Reading is a huge part of my life. Given how much time I devote to it every week, it’s surprising for me to remember that, less than a year ago, it was rare for me to pick up a book that didn’t appear on the syllabus for one of my classes. However, the trajectory of...
Why You Should Take Every Opportunity to Travel
In my 21 years of life on this earth, I’ve been fortunate enough to have done quite a bit of travelling. I have had the opportunity to travel to New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, England, Switzerland, India, Dubai, and many more exciting places. What I have taken away...
5 Tips for Regular Exercise
As students, there are some (maybe many) things that we know we should be doing, but we don’t do them, such as eating more vegetables, sleeping 8 hours a day, not procrastinating - you get the point. One of these things is exercising. Many of us have it at least at...
Embracing Graphic Novels If You Don’t Care About Superheroes
Recently, I made my sixth annual visit to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, an event held at the Toronto Reference Library where an enormous diversity of comic creators come together to share their work with the public. While I was wandering through the exhibitors’...
Idols In Sport – An Athletically Inspired Educational Journey
Chances are if you are an athlete at any level, you have role models who helped shape you and inspired you to become the athlete that you are today. As a competitive long distance runner, there were many role models who inspired me during my athletic and academic...
Why I Chose Mechanical Engineering Despite a Love of Programming
When it came time for me to choose a university and degree, I was conflicted. I loved physics, especially the “Physics Olympics” that my grade 12 physics teacher had made a part of my high school experience (i.e., mouse trap cars, predicting...
My Residence Life Don Experience
During the Winter 2017 school term, I had my first experience as a Residence Life Don at the University of Waterloo, at a traditional-style residence named Village 1. A Don, or Residence Assistant, is typically an upper year student that lives in a university or...
5 Tips for Better Time Management
As students, most of us understand the value of time, mainly because we feel that we have too little of it. Think for a moment, of how frequently you say or hear things like “I don’t have time”, “I wish I had more time”, or maybe even “I ran out of time”. When we stop...
How Knitting Makes Me a Better Student
Last January, I began my first work term by flying to Calgary, Alberta, a new city where I knew no one. Since it was the middle of a freezing winter and there were no social events on my calendar, I found myself with a lot of free time on my hands. After a few weeks,...
Discovering My Educational Path – An Athletically Inspired Educational Journey
After speaking with a co-worker about my blog series - Athletically Inspired Educational Journey - we got on the topic of what I studied at school, and why I decided to study it; something I had not yet touched on in my previous blog posts. As a child, I had a strong...