Funemployment ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, mainstream media
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Generation Y
The hottest buzzword surrounding Gen Y in Canadian media this summer has to be “funemployed.” That is, choosing to be unemployed to do things they’ve always wanted to do, such as travel, pursue hobbies and, if the mainstream media would have you believe it, move back in with Mom and Dad to have a riotous [...]
Tags: "real" jobs, bias, Gen Y, media, newspaper industry, observations, university
Freshman 15? Try a fourth-year fat suit
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Education, Health
Before I started university, I heard about the infamous Freshman 15 constantly. If you haven’t heard this term before, Freshman 15 refers to weight gain of any amount experienced by first-year post-secondary students thanks to the student lifestyle, which mostly involves fast food and take-out, copious amounts of alcohol, and a lot of sleeping, sitting [...]
Tags: body image, university, weight
Profs could have our full attention if they tried
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Education
A girl directly in front of me is toggling between two chat windows, a website of song lyrics, email, her Facebook profile, and, every now and then, her lecture notes. It’s hard to concentrate. I feel a pang of sympathy for the professor at the front of the hall. His multitasking students are certainly busy, [...]
Tags: change, criticism, laptops, university
How not to become a viable political option
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Education, Politics
Yesterday, the NDP chose not to fast track back-to-work legislation to end the strike at York University and the strike will continue for at least another week or two.
As a university student and an NDP supporter, this makes me very upset.
I don’t attend York, but I can sympathize with the more than 50,000 students who [...]
Tags: NDP, Ontario, unions, university, voting
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