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Scholarship of the Week!

Scholarship name: Heer Law Entrepreneurship Scholarship Sponsored by:  Heer Law Deadline:  December 31, 2024 Potential payout:  $2,000 Eligibility restriction:  Applicants must be currently attending university or college, or set to attend during the 2024-2025 academic year, and must be in good standing with their current or prospective institution. What’s required:  An email with contact and… Read more »

Fly on the Wall—Kamala, Quackers, & a Comedy Troupe

Standup comedians are good at finding funnies in daily life but so, too, are writers and philosophers—as we may find when we spend time with people whose life’s work seems to be to receive professional therapy guidance as they navigate an endless current of trials and tribulations.  Henry Miller provides a revealing rejoinder to life’s… Read more »

AU-Thentic Events

Doctorate In Business Administration Information Session December 5, 2024  12:00 p.m. Online Hosted by AU Faculty of Business Register at the Event Link A Pathway to Medical School Webinar December 11, 2024  6:30 p.m. Online Hosted by Trinity Medical Sciences University in partnership with AU Register at the Event Link

Rise to the Top with an 80 Hour Workweek

A YouTube video featuring former employees of Elon Musk popped up on my phone. Elon Musk sleeps on floors or whatever else is available, and I have done that previously, too, like some Japanese do, as sleeping on the floor is healthy for the back. So, I can keep up with Elon. The Stoics advise… Read more »

Music Review—BUNT

Artist: BUNT Single: “You” Hailing from Germany, BUNT has a unique style of DJ mixing that stands out from other jitter rave music.  Known for the top streaming song “Clouds” from the most recently released album Levi Don’t Do It, BUNT has amassed recognition amongst the rave scene. Most recently, BUNT released a new DJ… Read more »

Christianity, Churches, Reverends, and Walter Rauschenbusch

Truth and reconciliation have served as a way for Canada and the US to account for the historical wrongs of past generations, an approach that promises future generations will get an unfiltered understanding of the persecution and the marginalization of different peoples on the North American continent.  Those stories detail the challenge and struggle to… Read more »

A Meditation on Hope and Fear

Of all the qualities inherent to humankind, I think that the two most essential to our collective nature are fear and hope.  Standing above greed, love, anger, courage, or even curiosity, it is hope and fear that drive us, that hold sway over all that we have done and all that we might yet do;… Read more »

Student Sizzle—Following What’s Hot!

Reddit: ProctorU Issues:  A question about difficulties with ProctorU prompts some discussion on possible ways to fix it, including pre-checking everything involved with the technology, and to contact the tutor or professor immediately if there are difficulties with the invigilation. Facebook: Early Course Difficulties: A discussion about falling behind early when you have multiple courses… Read more »

Editorial—Like No Other?

Athabasca University has recently released is 2024-2029 Strategic Plan, titled “Like No Other”.  Like many strategic plans, this one is filled with a lot of aspirational words, lofty ideals, and precious few hard metrics. Sometimes, this is okay.  After all, as has been said, the moment you define something as a numerical metric to reach… Read more »

—Metis Week 2024—

What does it mean to me to be Metis? –   Lexis Roy Taanishi! To me, being Métis is embodying being unique, resilient, and full of vibrancy! Growing up in a heritage that combined two totally different ways of life, the First Nations and European culture and bringing those together. But because of those differences, it… Read more »