In the end, isn’t it just about distracting yourself from all the things you don’t know how to do? Here are some strong distraction contenders: Peaky Blinders. PEAKY. BLINDERS. My love for semi-historical movies and TV shows comes directly from […]
Yearly archives: 2018
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More often than not, summer is a time for students to recharge before a strenuous academic year. Summer’s also a time to catch up on the world and engage in some mindless fun. Of all the things I’ve watched, I […]
When I read for pleasure during the academic year, I find myself craving novels – I like the escape of fiction when I’m up to my neck in assignments. However, once I’ve been away from lecture halls and paper-writing for […]
This article was published in Issue 79.1 of The Athenaeum. Several months ago, I met a guy. Initially, I didn’t think it was worth my time to talk to him, but at the insistence of a good friend I sat […]
Every week, your elected student government meets on a Tuesday night to talk about issues concerning the ASU. Agenda items can seem long, mysterious and confusing without the proper background, making it difficult to see how these issues affect students. […]
The Valley is filled with a bevy of restaurants from which Acadia students are privileged to choose. Picasso’s, Lib Pub, Sushi Fang, The Naked Crepe, and many more well-attended establishments. The wider Annapolis Valley area is without a doubt a […]
Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) has won the inaugural 2018 Propylaeum Cup debate tournament and the accompanying $200 cash prize. Alex Brown and Amy Prescott represented WISE in the interdepartmental debate tournament, progressing through three rounds of debates. […]
April 10th marks the day that our very own Red Bull Can You Make It? Team departs from Acadia and is dropped in Madrid to embark on the journey of a lifetime. “Team Sorry”, a team comprised of Gabrielle Bailey […]
The ASU is meeting today on Tuesday, March 27th at 5:00pm in the Beveridge Forum (off of the Michener Lounge in the SUB) to discuss plans for an upcoming by-law revision. The ASU, by way of the Student Funding Committee, […]
I am not falling. I am not still. I am fabricated by false realities Your lies settle beneath the surface, under my skin. My heart is peeled, sliced into thin slabs of betrayal or do you eat it whole? […]
In 2014 the World Health Organization stated there are approximately 800,000 people who successfully commit suicide per year. If you do the math, this checks out to be roughly one person every 40 seconds. There are many reasons I […]
Whenever I tune my guitar, You. Whenever I look at the stars, You, My heart is scarred Threw My vision blurred Me I don’t know why I hurt. Against your lips, rough like dirt Your, but I love your […]
You collected our eyelashes in jars Hoarding our stolen wishes for yourself Starving like birds, mouths opened wide were ours You fed us your doctrine, first book then shelf Until we had swallowed a library. My throat rough with […]
This is not a poem. This is my acknowledgement that a problem exists within our language. This problem doesn’t appear to me because I have sisters, nieces, or a mother. I am not a feminist because of those reasons. […]