Successful business professionals and athletes do it before they perform. Musicians do it before heading onstage. Students do it before taking exams. Just as you map out a road trip prior to leaving, you may envisage in your mind how you wish an event to unfold, forming a mental picture of your desired outcome. Results… Read more »
Summertime and Canada Day is upon us! With that in mind, next week, The Voice Magazine will take a brief hiatus. I need to be rested and prepared for what’s going to happen the week after that—when our biannual reader survey comes out and AUSU pushes the Voice Magazine in their newsletter. Such pushes are… Read more »
My favourite Canada Day memory is when we were hiking the West Coast Trail. We were walking along a sandy beach, belting out the anthem with no one else in sight, just sand, sun, and surf. There is something cathartic about enjoying a day like that in the wilderness, a wilderness that in some ways… Read more »
Attending AU’s Convocation was, for me, a much-anticipated experience. As I worked my way through my AU degree program, the thought of attending convocation was on my mind. Although Athabasca is almost 4000 km away from home, I viewed it as a important destination for my AU journey. On June 8, my husband and I… Read more »
veins pulse and press, pulse and press straining through translucent skin forcing fevered blood through thick throbbing limbs aching and bloated listless weighted by inertia into the yellowed futon by a suppressive summer heat sticky moist and painful air ceases to exist through a haze of torpor, a dream (hallucination?) of an immense translucent crisp… Read more »
Susan Kare is an artist and graphic designer who created many recognizable icons for the Apple Macintosh computer. Some of Kare’s creations include the Chicago and Geneva typeface, as well as the original Monaco typeface, and the “Happy Mac”, which is the smiling face that opens up when a user turns on their machines. The… Read more »
Having a crippling study load and limited resources doesn’t have to mean a life of squalor. You can keep your crib neat and clean with in limited time and with little money with this set of tried and true tips from the bohemian quarter. Visit the bucket and plunger laundrette. There will be days when… Read more »
This week, we take a break from our interviews with the new AUSU Council members, and instead feature an interview with Dr. Chris Glover, a man with a serious position who doesn’t take himself all that seriously. While he takes a mostly light-hearted approach to our interview, he does slip up here and there and… Read more »
