Just a general question to my friends out there who are nearing the end of their time in post-secondary education or have just recently finished a degree ( Read more... )

Here I am, downstairs of my shiny new house while my roommates upstairs watch hockey. Unlike them, I refrained from getting a summer job immediately after the past semester and continued on into the spring. I'm taking another calculus class, having thoroughly failing it before. Luckily, I've managed to get into a class with a lecturer who judging ( Read more... )

Unless the exam suddenly becomes a competition of who can eat the most marshmallows, I am screwed.

A random thought: whenever I read the Edmonton Oiler's slogan "you're in oil country", I say it in my head with a slight slur so it sounds like "urine-oil country" and laugh because I have the sense of humour of a 10-year old.

A moment of profound and insightful verse in haiku form:

the world is unfair
won't let it overwhelm me
holy shit i'm swampedI am back in Red Deer for the Remembrance Day long-weekend after a grueling week of midterms and assignments. Tomorrow I’ll be returning back to the daily grind, nose placed firmly within a book, ready to tackle finals in ( Read more... )

In the next three weeks, I must remember that bombing my midterms is not the end of the world; that life will go on as always, and that a keg full of old beer awaits me tomorrow evening.

Happy birthday to my best friend, the love of my life, and the amalgamation of all my heart’s desires, evilgetyours. I hope your day is chock-full of spiffiness ( Read more... )

Why am I paying for classes taught by people incapable of teaching? With each year in post-secondary academia it is becoming increasingly apparent that I'm really paying thousands of dollars for a piece of paper rather than an education ( Read more... )

Living in residence is draining, especially at the beginning of the year when classes have barely begun and folks around here are drinking themselves into oblivion. I would be too if not for my lack of money and the fact that getting drunk seven consecutive nights in a row lost its novelty a while back. Damn my inclination towards moderation ( Read more... )

Although consumed by 12 hours of sitting in a classroom listening to our new house director and guest speakers lecture to us, August 31st was a good day to grow one year closer to the grave. Very low-key due to hectic juggling between meetings and unpacking the non-essentials but also heralded in a few pleasant surprises such as an early visit from ( Read more... )

I had a strange dream last night. It was strange because it didn’t follow the usual story structure my dreams have where I usually wake up right when the ‘plot’ hit its climax. Instead it was just… normal. As if it could have happened in real life, though I highly doubt such a situation would happen. Oh well ( Read more... )