Dear New Grad Student, I noticed my first gray hairs at 23 years old. Not coincidentally, the same year I started my Master’s degree. Grad school is touted as a monumental time of self-discovery, pushing your limits, meeting new people, and enriching your mind (for […]
Five years ago, my cousin Lauren Sewell died in a small airplane crash. Some accidents like these are just that: purely accidental, purely tragedies, purely blameless. But the surviving family members who do the work to understand what went wrong will tell you that these true […]
There’s this weird story we tell ourselves that somewhere around the age of 20, we need to “grow up” and “buckle down” and “get serious” and “put in that hustle” and “find that thing” that’s going to define our careers and our lives. Around this […]
This list of must-reads might seem to fall a bit on a “specialized audience” (other scientists), but I encourage you to take a peek anyways if you have an interest in science! Which is hopefully why you find yourself on this page to begin with. […]
A listicle?!?! Don’t worry folks, it’s not just mediocre click bait littered with number-by-number advertisements. It’s my all-time favourite funny articles that I’ve read online, and I feel like my little preamble here isn’t going to even do them justice no matter how much I […]
I know you all (including 11yo Rupert Grint) have been wondering this question. Well, the time has come to finally answer it, and through long and silly reasoned debate, my companion Naomi Louchouarn and I have reached an undeniable conclusion: the answer is not a […]
Finally, you’re out of your teens, out of high school, and you’ve found a bit of purpose in the Real World. Just when you think you’ve gotten past cringeing about your life (social awkwardness is decreasing, confidence is on the rise, life is looking up!), […]
When people say “check your privilege,” what do we think about? We think about white privilege, male privilege, maybe we even think about class privilege. We consider the world immediately around us and the different ways an individual can experience existence in that world. How […]
Hey world! Remember me? I used to curate this blog? I used to seem to exist? I am but now an ethereal wisp of an internet presence? In truth, I have been working on like, 5 different posts over the last two months, but none […]
I started listening to the new CBC podcast Love Me and man does it ever get you in the feels. I love the breadth of the types of relationships that is taken on in this podcast: episodes range from a story of a romantic relationship fostered […]
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