Born and (mostly) raised in Calgary, Karl has been taking courses on and off at AU since 1999. At one point, he changed his major from Computing Science to Computing Science because the new program requirements fit what he’d already taken better. Since then, he switched to English and graduated (w/Great Distinction he likes to add) proving along the way that it is entirely possible to complete an entire AU course within a three week period. If only he had done this at the beginning of the course instead of in the last extension.
This is not something he advises unless you are desperate, masochistic, or, ideally, both.
He is currently the managing editor of The Voice Magazine, where he tries to put his education to use helping other students as they provide content for The Voice
The Athabasca University Students Union is celebrating it’s 30th year, with an in person celebration happening at a pub in West Edmonton Mall, as well as some online events that you can find out more about on the AUSU site. It’s been an eventful ride for the group, which initially started off having been granted… Read more »
The Calgary Stampede is back in full force, with the parade taking place earlier today, and I completely forgot about it. If you’ve lived in Calgary for more than a couple of years, the Calgary Stampede is a yearly exercise in driving frustration with a side of mediocre (but free) food in the mornings and… Read more »
Needless to say, I have yet to feel like celebrating, but oddly, even ignoring recent personal events, I don’t think this would have been a Canada Day I felt like celebrating. In many ways, it feels like a good portion of my country has been co-opted by those who distrust what little science they understand,… Read more »
No getting around it, this is definitely a late issue this week. For that, I apologize. This week has been a mess for various reasons. But I wasn’t too worried early on because I knew I could pull it together and get everything sorted out on Friday. Except on Friday our little dog, the one… Read more »
On Sunday it’s Father’s Day. The idea seems a bit odd to me now, a celebration of the paternal figure in your life, that is supposed to happen even if you’re well separated from your father and rarely talk. Last year, my own father called to wish me a happy birthday. Which is nice, but… Read more »
Drugs and pets and microfiche and sleep. It’s a weird combination of articles in this week’s Voice, yet I find it works quite well to make this one of the better issues we’ve had over the past few months. We start off, of course, our feature student interview. Bonnie Mitchell has been a dispatcher for… Read more »
Ontario has re-elected Doug Ford to office. Honestly, I don’t have much more to say on the topic, because I haven’t been following Ontario provincial news too closely, but from what I saw over the past several years, it seemed to me that Doug Ford finally stepped up to the plate when COVID-19 came to… Read more »
And then reality steps in. You may not yet be aware, but the former chair of the Board of Governors of AU has been summarily removed. Nancy Laird’s term was supposed to go until sometime in August. However, for reasons the Alberta provincial government hasn’t seen fit to tell anyone, it suddenly was quite urgent… Read more »
Scholarship name: Villa Charities Undergrad Student Scholarship Sponsored by: Villa Charities Deadline: June 30, 2022 Potential payout: $2500 Eligibility restriction: Applicants must be Canadian citizens or have permanent-resident status, be registered full-time in an undergrad program at an accredited university or college and entering the second, third, or fourth year of the program, and have… Read more »
Premier Kenney has said he’ll be stepping down. The leader of the UCP received an approval vote of 51.4% in the recent leadership review here in Alberta, and although Premier Kenney previously said that any majority would be enough for him to continue and that all party members should fall in line if it happens,… Read more »