AUSU recently opened a new student program, health and dental insurance. If you’ve been at a brick-and-mortar institution recently, such a thing probably isn’t at all unheard of. In fact, you probably get automatically enrolled in such a plan and have to deliberately opt-out if you don’t want to pay the fee (although that fee… Read more »
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Scholarship name: 10 Words or Less Scholarship Sponsored by: StudentScholarships.org Deadline: November 15, 2023 Potential payout: $1000 Eligibility restriction: Applicants must be students between the ages of 14 and 25 who will be attending school in Canada or the U.S. in the Fall of 2024. What’s required: A comment on any post on the My… Read more »
AU students will be interested to know that October 20 is Information Overload Day (though perhaps that event should be marked every day.) We waded through the archives to find some articles dealing with that concept. Transferable skills. Debbie Jabbour calls on her experience as a distance student to help in her new job involving… Read more »
Lemuel Lemming was a lemming, much like other lemmings. He ate what other lemmings ate. He slept about as long as other lemmings slept. So, pretty much your average lemming. Lemuel did sometimes wonder about things. Like why they all ate certain foods. But he noticed that other lemmings did not ask questions like that,… Read more »
I truly believe that sometimes the best teachers don’t come from books and the classroom but from family. In my case this is my dad’s cousin who my sister and I affectionately call Aunt Margaret. When we were talking recently, she said something that finally cleared up a stumbling block in my perspective. We were… Read more »
What happens when we write for The Voice Magazine? For one, when we return to a university, we’ll be shocked at how well we write academically. Academics tend not to write exceptionally well, according to author Helen Sword. And one professor told me that graduate students tend to write inadequately. She included me in the… Read more »
Traveling as a student can be one of the most rewarding things since, not only does it help with learning beyond the classroom, it contributes to so much more personal growth and development than people realize. Given that COVID-19 pandemic is behind us (or less restricting than it once was), travel is a great way… Read more »
A 2016 research study published in the Canada Medical Association Journal estimated that over 50% of Canadians were susceptible to developing diabetes over the course of their lifetimes. The study was headed by a group of researchers at the University of Calgary, and it involved interpreting data provided by the province of Alberta. Despite that… Read more »
Facebook How to contact your academic expert? A student tried to contact her academic expert at AU through the student help centre. However, the help centre sends the student a dead-end message to submit a request to the student help centre. As a result, the student asks how to contact an actual human. One student replies… Read more »