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
December is upon us! Like every year, the Voice will go on hiatus for the last week of December, and then return in the new year with the Best of The Voice for 2013. If there are any articles that we’ve run over the past year that you think should get more attention, please let… Read more »
One of my favorite albums when I was a kid was Harry Nilsson’s The Point. It’s a tale of a child who lives in a land where everybody has a point growing on the top of their head, except him. In the end, it’s a story about diversity, tolerance, friendship, and finding self-confidence in being… Read more »
Increasing the number of writers for The Voice Magazine is one of the tasks I’ve been set to accomplish as editor here, so you can understand my excitement when I saw an email offering original content for The Voice Magazine. Even better, it seemed the person was willing to provide this content for no cost…. Read more »
Veterans Day. Armistice Day. Remembrance Day. No matter what you call it, the sentiment is the same, a day to celebrate and respect the men and women who died in various wars to preserve our freedom. I have to admit, I don’t tend to think of Remembrance Day in those terms. I don’t know anybody… Read more »
On Sunday morning, we change from Daylight Saving Time back to normal time. Spring forward; fall back, as they say. We all get an extra hour of sleep as what was 7am becomes 6am. But aside from that single extra hour (which we pay for come March when we get shorted an hour) does anybody… Read more »
It’s the time of year where that chill in the air becomes undeniable. Summer has definitely left us, and as we put the finishing touches on our costumes (or scurry around frantically trying to come up with one) we start to seek comfort in warmer things. This issue has a selection of those, starting with… Read more »
Across the country, university campuses are seeing a sharp increase in the number of students seeking help dealing with mental health issues. As Dr. Su-Ting Teo, director of Ryerson University’s health services, told CTV’s W5 in a recent episode, ?I’ve been here almost 13, 14 years and . . . the sort of volume and… Read more »
Each year since 2005, the Athabasca University Research Centre has been hosting Arts & Science Research Talks, which look at topics near and dear to your professors. The most recent talk was done back in April of this year, but fortunately all the talks since 2010 are being kept online and can be accessed on… Read more »
PSYCH 200: Introduction to Career Development: This recently developed course might fit well into the lesson plans of some students. According to the official description in the syllabus, the course ?reviews the history of career counselling and discusses a sampling of career development theories, the general process of career counselling, the career concerns of diverse… Read more »
Typically early September is when AU has its highest enrollment, as this is when graduating high school students or people seeking to re-enter school start looking for options. Whether You’re a new student or continuing with a long-term educational plan, here are some tools you may not have known about: The AU Math Site has… Read more »