“Yes! Its a new life, full of opportunities! But I am more nervous than excited. EVERYTHING IS FOREIGN AND UNKNOWN. How are the people going to be? The teachers?? Friends…will I have any??” That was my line of thought when I moved to Canada an year ago! Canada is known to be a country of…
Dear all graduates and those graduating, Moving into a new beginning, your mind pregnant with the fear of the unknown can be overwhelming. It is overwhelming. The worries of adapting to your new surroundings, the challenges of making new friends; the inevitable insecurities of self-doubt… However, as the saying goes, “It is not the strongest of species…
A few weeks back I received the magnificent opportunity to attend a documentary “Finding Kind” at the ConocoPhillips Auditorium thanks to Youth Central and Youth Are Awesome! Finding Kind was a documentary regarding girls and the reasoning behind why they are so mean towards one another. Two girls decided to find the answer by…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iflIOklflrg Give that kid an award. And the a Nobel prize – Alana Mayfield (Top comment on video) Many of us know a bad teacher. They may be non interactive, unpassionate, unfair or maybe a mix of all these traits as they educate students with a lack of vigor and seriousness in their work. Jeff Bliss…
Screen shot of the web – http://www.speakout.alberta.ca/ Are you age 13-18? Are you a student studying in Alberta? Are you a student who want to tell the government what YOU think about your education? This is for you! Speakout Alberta is an website with all kinds of different materials telling you what other students think about…
The whispers. The rumouring stories. The undeniable facts. The news titles: another takes his life. It’s all a shock at first; the occurrence of death is not an experience we encounter every day. Nor is it something we want to face. A few weeks later? How do you feel about that person who’s suddenly missing from the…
It’s almost that time of the year, everyone is looking forward to, but sometimes can find themselves hopelessly lost and utterly bored. It’s paradoxical – yet no one can deny it: summer can be monotonous sometimes. What better time to enjoy some well-written literary works, then? Contemporary teenage fiction can be compelling, though it is…
Here comes June, the month of torturous final exams, the month of enthusiastic, long-anticipated good-byes to the monotony of school; yet, it is a month of change and perhaps, with that, comes the aching of one’s heart. Whether it is transition into a new academic school year at the same school, transition from junior high to…
Over this spring break, I’ve had the most wonderful – most awe-inspiring, phenomenal, stupendous, extraordinary, and breath-taking (for “wonderful” simply isn’t enough to describe the awesomeness that had befallen upon me, so I take to abuse the thesaurus) – experience: school trip to LONDON and PARIS! I’ve always loved to travel and sight-see, but the trip…
How many ways can you think of right now to pick up a paper clip? A group of researchers did an experiment to ask a same group of kids this question over a number of years, and quite surprisingly, these kids come up with less and less answers as they grow older. Is education stripping…
Improv, or rather improvisational theatre, is neat if you are the audience seeing it unfold. For the performers, though, it’s in a different league of its’ own compared with scripted productions. As part of Youth Week (of course), the Loose Moose Theatre Company (if you’ve ever heard Youth Central’s Andrew Phung do some public speaking, you know where…
It’s that time of the year where people are deciding what to do during the summer. Should you get a job? Or catch up on the latest drama? Often times, students will lean towards summer school to catch up or get ahead in school. Many universities will offer programs for high school students. These courses…
Gene Researcher for a Week is a program created by the Canadian Gene Cure Foundation for grade 11 and 12 students who have an innate curiosity for science, human genetics, and human genetics research. If selected, these students will work beside influential genetic research scientists for one week over spring break. This program is great for budding…
So for me, exams have just finished and I recently got my results back. To say the least, I was utterly disappointed/shocked/angry/saddened/in despair over one mark in particular. And when I say I did poorly, I really mean I did poorly- my final mark brought my average down ten (plus) percent. Yup, ten (plus) percent.…
Final exams are finally hitting high school students and I don’t even have to design my own science lab to know that the rate of procrastination with the added stress is definitely increasing as well. Studying may seem like rocket science at times and I feel like “procrastination” is actually the perfect solution towards helping my…