Remember when you were told not to make a face or it would stay like that permanently? Given the nature of the internet, that saying may have more truth than most people realizeespecially if some friend happens to snap a picture of you while youre making that face. The notion that whats on the internet… Read more »
Lindsay Boyd is the Canadian Alliance of Student Association (CASA)’s Communications and Public Relations Officer, who recently took some time to be interviewed by Voice writer, Scott Jacobsen, about her role with CASA and where she thinks it’s heading in the future. How did you become involved with CASA? Going into the job, I didn’t… Read more »
This month, almost five years after beginning my first course at AU, I enrolled in my final three courses. Now, three boxes of AU course materials are on their way to me. Theres no backing out now. I’m on target to graduate in 2018. Selecting and enrolling in my final few courses was exciting to… Read more »
In some career fields, there is a specific trail you need to follow to get to your end goal. If you complete A, B, and C (in that order), and do them well, you are able to climb up the career ladder. Other careers do not have a well-trodden path. Sometimes it’s like youre standing… Read more »
I first began texting Mustafa Mallabozan, a Kurdish musician from Kobany, in 2011 on a language-learning site. Id been using the site officially to learn other languages and unofficially to gather narratives from people in strife-torn Middle Eastern countries. I wasnt eager to learn Kurdish, but I did want first-person accounts of the Syrian war…. Read more »
[t]../articles/images/Column-Editorial.jpg[et]Just today, the new AU Executive blog was put up, and in it, President Shawna Wasylyshyn outlines a couple of upcoming changes to the fees that AU students will have to pay. The first is that the tuition for international students is being given a “market adjustment”, which essentially is business-eze for “significant price increase… Read more »
Have you ever received a mark that you thought was low? Not just disappointingly low, but undeservedly low? I received a mark like that recently, a dismal 70% on an essay, which was worth 25% of the final course mark. I’ve written many essays for many AU courses. Usually I have a good sense of… Read more »
[t]../articles/images/2530-Wheel.jpg[et]Regardless of what field you are in, there are a few conventional words of wisdom that get thrown around. You must do X if you want to succeed. For writers it is, “you must read if you want to write. You must read widely and within your own genre. In this way you are able… Read more »
[t]../articles/images/2530-Food.jpg[et]I returned home from my two-and-a-half-week vacation in Southeast Asia about a month ago. Since returning, I am nostalgic for the local street food. If you are unfamiliar, street food is exactly what it sounds like – ready-to-snack food served to you on the side of the pavement. Having grown up in Shanghai, street food… Read more »
