Where have I been? What have I been doing? These things, perhaps soon, I shall elucidate. However, the important fact now is that I am, indeed, alive and am, undoubtedly, still at UBC.

Too many times have I passed through the Vanier Commonsblock, fresh from a late-night/early-morning exploration of the collegiate social scene, only to find the study lounges packed. On a Friday night I find this scene sickening. Please realize: we all have midterms, yet we only have this time of our lives once. Overlooking said will [...]

I will have suffered my first “off-day” by the time that this post has been published. No catastrophes will have occurred, nor any cataclysmic rifts. No, this day has simply been a war of attrition with the world at large. It seems that every moment of chance I have been assigned the negative outcome; every [...]

Today I bid farewell to my family. As their van pulled away I was given to many strong feelings, some of which warrant recognition. However, the one which I shall address in this post is both simple and heartfelt: I feel grateful. I thank the overriding power of the universe, be whatever it is, for [...]

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: [...]