[youtube HNBMxTYgcxc] If you’re wondering why I posted a lip dub, then check out my previous post about this! I hope that was an entertaining five minutes of your time, because the Chinese Students’ Society has spent over a month being involved in the Blackberry Challenge hosted by CampusPerks. CSS is representing the University of…
Dear Grade 12 students: I know you’re worrying about university applications, getting enough credits to graduate high school and getting awesome marks to get into an awesome school. But make sure you’re not concentrated on just one thing in your life, and you’re set! If you’re just into studying and academics, you’re competing with too…
For those of you who aren’t in University, this is still applicable to you! CampusPerks aims to fuel student life on campuses across Canada (yay!). They create challenges to help students unlock rewards (or get funding), which in turn gives them kudos that allow them to donate to and support student-led projects of their choice.…
If you decided to apply to the University of Calgary for this upcoming fall semester, then you’ve probably received your acceptance letter (yay!) as well as your copy of Little Princes by Conor Grennan. If you haven’t started reading it already, I highly suggest to do it! Not only is it suggested that you do…
On Friday May 13 I had the great pleasure of attending the A Cappella Fellas’ annual concert and the University of Calgary’s MacEwan Ballroom, supporting the Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta. For those of you who don’t know, “a capella” is literally a genre of music which involves singing without instruments, meaning the singers…
On Saturday and Sunday, the University of Calgary will be taken over by a yearly event – Model United Nations. This two day event – presented by the political science department of the University of Calgary- allows high school students the opportunity to simulate the workings of the United Nations. Participants are assigned a country…
It’s a blissful life for a writer… or is it really? Yann Martel with his novel “Life of Pi”, image credit: Jonathan Evan WordFest WordFest, in its 15thyear, is an international writer’s festival that brought many great and interactive events between writers and readers! Over 65 events occurred, such as reading, poetry and spoken word…
Welcome to my weekend preview! Look for this blog every Friday, when I’ll be posting a handful of events going on over the weekend. Without further ado, here are my picks. Starts Saturday Milky Way Nights Observe the Milky Way next to the University of Calgary’s research scientists at the Rothney Observatory from Saturday until…