This is your life, this is your digital life

When I was a teenager, I spent a lot of time on the computer. I developed web pages, wrote stories and poetry, and designed graphics. It wasn’t out of the ordinary for me to spend all night on the computer (and this was before Facebook and Twitter). Sure, I had friends and family and extra-cirricular [...]

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What is a “real” job anyway?

Since I started my internship at the National Post last week, family from all over the country has been congratulating me and asking me about the future of my career. (Mostly on Facebook, but that’s because I’ve been posting the links to my articles on my profile almost daily.)
Although I tend to be a little [...]

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Signs of life for Hollywood North (and me)

The first three days of my internship at the National Post have already come and gone, and, as usual, I shouldn’t have stressed myself out so much beforehand.
In some ways, it’s exactly what I expected, but mostly it’s not what I expected at all.
For most of the day (until it gets closer to deadline), the [...]

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If you put in the effort, someone will notice

If you put in the effort, someone will notice. Sometimes. If you’re lucky.
The older members of Generation Y, like me, have grandparents and parents who are self-made men and women as inspiration for their own success. As many Gen Y denouncers suggest as a flaw, when Gen Y was growing up we were told if [...]

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This is when I turn into a zombie

Voting for the Ryerson Students’ Union elections ends tonight and we’re staying at school into the wee hours of the morning to get all the results live.
I’ll be liveblogging the evening’s events at RyersOnline. Look for a page to go live around 5:30 p.m. if all goes as planned.
The other editors and I will be [...]

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