Who are your fellow students? At times, in an online learning environment, it can feel like you are all alone, but across the nation and around the globe, students just like you are also pursuing their Athabasca University (AU) studies! Each week, The Voice Magazine will be bringing you some of these stories. If you… Read more »
Imagine yourself as driftwood, bobbing and floating and carried along by an inexorable current of education. One moment on the surface as though with an invisible propeller, the next under the surface like a shipwreck waiting to sink and be found. Our study lives are framed by our ability to lose and find ourselves in… Read more »
From my early beginnings as a young introvert, the public library has always been a bit of a refuge. Years later, not much has changed, albeit with an additional affinity for endless hours spent scouring second-hand bookstores to add to my ever-growing “to-read” pile. From one bookworm to another, this column will be underscoring and… Read more »
Sending the right gifts during Christmas can be a headache. Especially for people whom you’ve barely interacted with or perhaps have interacted with for a long time but hardly know their interests and hobbies. These can be colleagues, classmates, professors and other acquaintances. What are some ways you can give authentic gifts relevant to the… Read more »
The eruption of Mt Semeru on Indonesia’s Java island recently got us thinking about what The Voice‘s contributors have had to say about volcanoes. Something is bound to get us. Voice editor Karl Low reviews the web-based documentary and book, Dystopia: What is to be done?. “To my mind, it feels too much like propaganda… Read more »
With the holidays around the corner, many of us will head to the store and buy ingredients for a most delicious holiday meal. It might be turkey, or goose, or even prime rib, but then you’re going to travel down an aisle with shelves full of stuffing in a box, and you might think to… Read more »
We are rarely taught how to organize our computer files. We just learn on the go, perhaps duplicating the same single file in multiple locations. What a mess for most of us! At university, back in the early 2000’s, my computer was a tornado. Files with no folders. I had no clue how to create… Read more »
Artist: Still Insane Single: Stay Home Quebec City punk rock band, Still Insane, has released a single from their upcoming album—their first-time releasing music since 2017. The single is titled “Stay Home”, although the name of the new EP is still under wraps. The band will be releasing the full album February 2022. Still Insane… Read more »
Dear Barb: It’s that time of year again and my anxiety is through the roof. I hate family get-togethers at any time of year, and Christmas just seems to make it all that much worse. Everyone was so upset last year about not being able to get together with family at Christmas, but not me. … Read more »
