Written by Alex Gallaway What’s the deal with summer classes? Are they worth putting in the extra time (and money) over what’s supposed to be an academic “break” for most students? How much do they really contribute to your degree? Taking summer classes can feel like a stalled pause in your academics. You’re usually not fully engrossed in classes, but you don’t seem to have much free time either. There are a number of factors to take into account if you are considering the possibility of summer classes. There are a variety of ways to take online classes, and there are typically a greater number of asynchronous or online offerings,…
Written by Joseph Dyck — Preface: Joseph Dyck is a UofL BASc student. This poem was inspired by a poem published by The Meliorist on April 29, 2024, titled “Divided Heart” and written by Guadalupe Vial Ulloa. — Divided Heart, I know it well,within my desiccated shell. How can one reconcile two worlds, two selves, too much heaven, too much hell?Yearning always, under the spell. The drop of rain knows no such rift, not while upon the blustery chinook adrift,nor when meandering through ebb and flow,indiscriminate of prairie canal or Whistler snow. But the aged atoms envy our brief light,since we make meaning in our flight. In Manitoba, sweet maples,…
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New Year, New Me? Written by Alejandro Neufeld 2024 is here, and along with a new set of numbers to write on the dateline of assignments, many use the new year as a starting point for developing better habits or cutting bad ones out of their lives. Logically, the beginning of the year would be the time that people declare their resolve to change something about themselves or their lives. We call them ‘New Year’s Resolutions’, and go on and on about how, this year, we will stick to our resolutions and finally better ourselves. If you gagged while reading that opening, I do not blame you, as I myself…
