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
If you’re an AU student, this next week is a critical one for you. If you’re an Albertan, you get to have a say in it. Albertans go to the polls to elect a new provincial government on April 16th. If you’re an AU student this matters, because who is elected will end up having… Read more »
This week, we’re featuring our recent interview with AU student, Sarah McDougall. I like this interview, even though Sarah herself says “I haven’t done much.” In fact, that’s why I like it. It’s okay to have not done much, because I’d bet that’s where a lot of us are coming from as we go through… Read more »
I’ve been thinking about Brexit, lately. It struck me that part of the reason there’s such angst is that the various nations in the EU have never really stood up and said “We’re forming a new country with all of us as part of it.” Instead, they’ve been sidling up to it, slowly voting, in… Read more »
Last Wednesday, March 20th, a lot of post-secondary students in Ontario walked out of class at noon to protest Doug Ford’s recent changes to OSAP and against the Student Choice Initiative which I spoke about last week. Well intentioned, I’m sure, and it garnered some headlines, but given the recent walk out of high school… Read more »
As we approach the Alberta election, I’m probably going to start looking more into the politics here in Alberta as well as out in Ontario. The reason being that the United Conservative Party (UCP) here in Alberta has adopted language in their policies about demanding that all fees for student unions and student association be… Read more »
AthaU Facebook Group Chelsea asks if an Alberta journeyman certificate counts toward an AU degree; AU staffer Erin points her in the right direction. Ang celebrates getting into law school after completing an AU degree. Chanelle seeks help deciphering an ambiguous EDUC 201 exam description. Other posts include courses to complete while recovering from surgery,… Read more »
Yes. It’s late. I know. On Monday, my partner and I were in a traffic accident. We weren’t at fault. The elderly driver of the other vehicle flew through a stop sign and with no warning and slightly slippery roads, I couldn’t stop us before we T-boned into them. Now, before you worry, physically, the… Read more »
Starting from a Globe & Mail news story shortly after Jody Wilson-Raybould was moved from the office of Justice Minister and Attorney General to minister of Veteran’s Affairs, the news has been abuzz with a possible scandal involving members of the government perhaps attempting to pressure Ms. Wilson-Raybould into changing a decision of the Director… Read more »
Recently you may have heard some stories about what happened with an amber alert in Toronto. Being from that city herself, Voice writer Brittany Daigle felt she had to write about the response, and we’re presenting it as our feature article this week. Also, this week, a small theme developed around the idea of people… Read more »
Let’s just start off with the good stuff. Our feature article this week is an interview with AU’s newest writer-in-residence, Katherena Vermette. Tania Parker talks to this Governor General award-winning writer about her routine and what she’s going to be doing while serving as AU’s writer-in-residence. The writer-in-residence program is one that, like the Write… Read more »