Vitamin intake might be your key to success this school year
By Arroy (AJ) Jacob, Staff Writer & Emma Duke, Features Editor The day begins to lag and so does your body. The exam in front of you begins to blur, and suddenly your pencil...
Category: Features
‘Let me take what I want to take:’ MRU students divided on general education requirements
By Darian MacDonald, Contributor General Education Classes (better known as Gen Eds) are a hot topic around campus. Some people love them, some people hate them. The two arguments tend to be either: “I’m...
Three Tips For Surviving Your First Year at University
By Emma Duke, Features Editor The weeks leading up to your first day of university are both utterly exciting and completely nerve-wracking. Back-to-school shopping, fun! Registering for various Gen Eds and clusters and..wha? The...
Essay Tips You Didn’t Know You Needed
By Darian MacDonald, Contributor I remember getting my very first essay assignment in my first year of university and feeling incredibly underprepared. The kind of essay my professor was asking for was nothing like...
Does the Student ‘Delusion’ Mindset Really Work?
By Arroy (AJ) Jacob, Staff Writer The semester has begun and you’ve received your first grade on D2L, the infamous orange dot looming over the bell icon. Before you click on it, you recite the...
Life-proof skills worth learning to survive the Inflation
By Mikaela Delos Santos, Publishing Editor There is no arguing in the sentiment that inflation has not been easy for many Canadians. One of the biggest groups affected are university and college students. Juggling...
OPINION: We don’t really care about Aliens anymore
By Matthew Hillier, Contributor In April 2020, the Pentagon declassified three videos supposedly taken of Unidentified Flying Objects (U.F.O) by Navy pilots. However, the world took little interest in these videos, namely due to...
Death by Water: The OceanGate Billionaires & Fisherman Boat Refugees
By Arroy Jacob, Contributor Writer Chances are, you’re not a billionaire reading this. And nor are you a refugee fleeing your home. On Sunday, June 18th, four billionaires and the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions...
Healing through Muay Thai
By Mikaela Delos Santos, Publishing Editor After having trained Jiu Jitsu in my own personal time, I learned that the overall MMA culture is illusively tribe-like. And the primary rule of the MMA gyms?...
My heritage is not your fetish; the microaggressions I have experienced as a Filipina
By Mikaela Delos Santos, Publishing Editor I will start off with frankness to avoid being accused of hypocrisy. I have a white boyfriend and have had previous relationships with white cis males around my...
