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GO CANADA! NATIONAL ESSAY COMPETITION Value: $5000 APPLICATION DEADLINE: MARCH 14, 2003 Administrator: University of Toronto JD/MBA Students’ Association Notes: Open to full time undergraduate students enrolled in a non-professional faculty of a Canadian university or cégep in the 2002/2003 school year. Must write an essay: “What steps should Canada take to improve its competitiveness… Read more »

ATTENTION: Psychology Students

Every Monday from 9:30 – 10:30 AM MST and Wednesday from 7-8 PM MST the Athabasca University Psychology Students’ Society gets together to chat about issues pertaining to the world of psychology at AU. Go to http://www.ausu.org/psychology/ and log on the discussion forum link, from there click on Psychology at the top written in blue… Read more »

X-PRESS

CUTTING-EDGE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK DEGREE FEATURES CONSTANTLY CHANGING CURRICULUM UNB Press Release Students with an interest in multimedia may be excited to learn that the faculty of arts at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton has a program in Multimedia Studies. Designed to prepare students to work and live in a world of… Read more »

2003 Bryon Paege Memorial Award – Call For Nominations

CUPE Local 3911 is currently accepting nominations for the 2002 Bryon Paege Memorial Award. This annual $450 award, sponsored by CUPE Local 3911, is presented at the end of June in each year to a recipient selected by the Bryon Paege Memorial Award Selection Committee from among those nominated. The election committee is composed of… Read more »

AU Profiles – Student: Angela Fergus

STUDENT: Angela Fergus What province and city/town do you live in? Just outside Saint John, New Brunswick (Nerepis). Do you have a family/ kids/ pets ? I have a wonderful husband, 2 children (a son aged 13 and a daughter aged 11), three cats, a hamster and lots of fish. What are your hobbies /… Read more »

THE HARRIED STUDENT: STUDENT OF THE WORLD

My new editor asked me a question. She asked: Did you have a major system shock coping with the climate change from England? A fair question. But it can only be understood if you know my situation. I’m a Canadian, an Albertan, to be specific. I’ve been doing distance ed since before the hoodoos were… Read more »

Dear Sandra

Dear Sandra, My first AU exam is coming up at the end of this month and I am petrified!!! This is the first exam I have written in 17 years. I am doing well on the course, but I am so afraid of writing the exam. I am studying 5-6 hours a day, yet when… Read more »

DON’T COMPLAIN IF YOU AREN’T WILLING TO FIGHT

They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, of others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. Resistance to Civil Government -Henry David Thoreau I have recently heard a lot of complaints from my… Read more »