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- Maintaining Friendships After Highschool (Or Not)
- Butter chicken therapy and other lessons from first year
- Marine Drive: First Impressions
- Commuter Tunes Vol. 1
- 043. Dobrý den from Telč, Czech Republic*
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- Like a pressure cooker waiting to explode…
- Reflection on First Year
- From East to West: The Ins and Outs of Going to School Across the Country
- Summer Goals/New Job
- 041. Here comes the sun, do da doo doo.
- Rejection Nightmare
- For Imagine Day Squad 62
- I got a residence offer!
- Residence Year One: Totem Park
- Term Reflection
- Possible minors
- I don’t really know a lot about French politics..
- An End To A Beginning
- My first -and most probably last- mini post in Turkish
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Category Archives: Events
Outweek 2012 Schedule
Here’s the schedule for Outweek 2012: Monday, February 6, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pmFlag Raising Ceremony @ SUB Flagpole 12:00 pm – 4:00 pmAwareness Fair @ SUB Concourse 6:00 pm – 7:00 pmX-Queeries @ SUB 204 Tuesday, February 7, 20… Continue reading
TerreWeb Seminar Series Schedule
TerreWeb‘s Seminar Series for this Spring have a theme of Perspectives on Challenges for Effective Communication of Science and Global Change. All their seminars take place in FSC 1003 from 1:00 PM until 2:30 PM, and they all take place on Thursd… Continue reading
Combining Two Cultures: Failure Quotes
Here’s a list of quotes I obtained from Linda Carson at the Combining Two Cultures (C2C) conference (for a comprehensive overview of the conference, check out my other blog post here): If I’m not free to fail, I will never start another boo… Continue reading
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Combining Two Cultures 2012
I apologize, as this post will likely be particularly lengthy. It will be a fairly comprehensive review of the Combining Two Cultures (C2C) conference which took place at Waterloo last weekend (from January 21-22, 2012). I led a working group there tit… Continue reading
Students of UBC: I’m probably just as busy as you, and I’m voting in the AMS Elections. Also, shit-giving.
I managed to inform myself enough to vote, even though I was half-writing my paper while watching a candidate’s debate, was listening to an educational podcast while reading candidates’ bios, and was doing Biology readings in MASS when I was … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Cool free lectures coming up
As usual, there are a number of free lectures coming up that I am attending or am considering attending Let me know if you’re interested in any of the following so we can meet up: “Men, Women, Sex and Violence” … Continue reading → Continue reading
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A Cure for Cancer
I’m posting this after a recent discussion with Khanh, Pritisha, Carson, Kurt, Jenny, Quinlan, Lu, Kim, and Ben (we had a day long discussion of ideas yesterday, and it was amazing). I found this floating around Facebook, and it sounded interesti… Continue reading
Combining 2 Cultures
Some of you may recall that last year I went to McMaster to attend the Combining 2 Cultures conference. This conference has an interdisciplinary focus, especially on integrating the sciences with the arts; it was also the conference that gave birth to … Continue reading
Update: Cute Cats and the Arab Spring
Like my post earlier today, this is another post to update another one of my previous posts which covered the talks by David Suzuki, Bill McKibben, and Ethan Zuckerman. I noticed that the talks have now been posted online, so I figured I should share t… Continue reading
Posted in Bill McKibben, David Suzuki, Ethan Zuckerman, Events, Paul Martin, UBC
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