I just finished my first year of high school this year, and I wouldn’t say it was the best experience, yet I was able to learn a lot out of this year. Although my middle school goes up to grade 9, some schools do start middle school at highschool, and with the lessons I have…
Calgary has provided youth with many opportunities that allow them to develop new skills, meet diverse people, interact socially, and become a helping hand to their community. If you believe you want to impact your community or want to utilize your time during the summer break, volunteering is a great option to choose. I personally…
Chances are if you are a high school student living in Canada, or really anywhere in North America, you have at least once heard about Khan Academy. Whether it was because you were fruitlessly trying to understand the recent lesson on organic chemistry, or simply reviewing (or cramming) for a math test the day after,…
We’ve all experienced a baking phase, there’s no hiding it. That time during the first wave of the COVID pandemic where everyone seemed to be baking banana bread? Yup, been there, done that. It’s crazy to think that before the pandemic, I didn’t even know how to boil an egg. I was that kid who…
If you know me personally, you know that I am into coding, by no means does that mean that I am good at it; but instead it means that I truly try my best to learn it and improve my skills gradually. Although, this summer, I am inspired to learn more coding because it is…
Bored during quarantine and in desperate need of adventure without having to leave your house? Read all about Calgary’s Gideon Keys from the comfort of your couch! This is your chance to get swept into another world — one that you’re familiar with, so you might even feel like you’re in your own little movie.…
The world is in quite the situation right now. While all of us want to mess around on the internet (as I have been doing for the past two months), the looming unease of the COVID-19 pandemic continually presses to our minds. The world seems so disorganized, nothing seems certain, and no one has any…
It’s time to build Shruggie! In the current quarantined state of the world, everyone probably has an insane amount of time to kill. Today’s featured website, buildshruggie.com, provides an excellent way to kill this time. This site is the world’s most random, useless puzzle; its pieces are various keyboard symbols you can put together to make…
Introduction: Why write a series on useless websites? Here’s the thing:I spend WAY too much time on the internet, and sometimes, my internet wandering takes me to the weirdest and most useless places on the world wide web. This “useless web” is extremely hilarious and entertaining to me, but most other internet users usually ignore…
YouTube carries content styles from all walks of life, appealing to a huge variety of audiences. This enables the demographic to be spread across a huge spectrum and understandably gives a reason why YouTube is so big. However, both Google and YouTube have been facing some recent criticism, and this comes as a result of…
In the last two posts of this series I talked about the influence groups of social media such as Twitter and the false information of vaccines that go around. I also contributed the second post into some data on how vaccines do really help people to avoid harmful diseases. The image seen above of the…
In the last post I decided to talk about some groups on twitter and how these groups exploit people and convince them to not take vaccines. This is the second part of the series. The graph seen above is from “Our World in Data” in which all numbers have been provided by the World Health…
Escape rooms or locked rooms whichever name you prefer to give them is a fun way to test to see how smart your team, friend group, family etc. is. I love doing them because I get this rush of adrenaline as my friends and I try to gather the clues and figure out how to…
Most people take their privacy very seriously but neglect their online privacy. Most people wouldn’t want a stranger snooping in their bedroom, yet so many people ignore their online privacy. When Google, Facebook, or any other large corporation collects our personal data, many of us don’t even bat an eyelash to it. We’ve fallen under…
As youth, we have a lot of opportunities for self improvement. But instead of using out time to improve our lives, we play video games and waste many of those opportunities. We may often feel guilty when purchasing video games online, since we know that the money we are spending on video games could have…