By: Jo-Hannah Yeo

Being a student has its difficulties, one of which being a tight wallet. However, there are plenty of good eats in Vancouver to go to on a budget. As a multi-cultural city, Vancouver brings a variety of cultural cuisine to enjoy. Eating out at quality places should not be compromised because of a limited budget!

Here is a list of some of my favourite places to go out for food with some friends. These places are casual but full of character and of course, delicious food.

1. Sun Sushi – The best bang for your buck near campus, there’s nothing fishy about that! Just one 99 B-line away, the sushi special of $5.99 comes with three rolls and a miso soup. Service isn’t the best, but food is great so no complaining, just tip less.

2. Jethro’s – Big portions at a reasonable price defines this small corner restaurant on Dunbar. Double stacked pancakes the size of your entire plate or eggs benny, there is every breakfast/brunch item you could ever want. The catch: be prepared to wait for over an hour to get a seat in the store.

3. Save on Meats –This old school butcher shop located in Gastown comes with a killer diner next door. Expect filling sandwiches on the cheap and daily specials!

4. Pho Tan – Any pho in Vancouver is cheap. I happen to like this place, located in the hip Kerrisdale neighbourhood, because it serves bubble tea as well (cross-country offerings: Vietnam and Taiwan, interesting…). Go for the classic soup and noodle pho and the Vietnamese salad rolls!

5. Kintaro—Haven’t been to this West End ramen shop yet? Go now, and hurry before the line forms. Steaming bowls of rich broth, heaps of noodles, slices of braised pork and lots of extras. I recommend the Shoyu broth. Way better than the Ichiban sitting in your pantry.

6. Meat and Bread—Probably the best interior you’ll find at a sandwich shop offering only 4 options: Porchetta, Corned Beef, and two daily specials. Sit down for a bite, then go for a stroll through Gastown or Chinatown.

7. Hawker’s Delight—A delightful place to hawk on some food. Southeast Asian cuisine at it’s finest. Hainanese chicken rice and Laksa are must haves. Don’t forget a side of veggie fritters and guava juice for refreshment!

8. La Taqueria—Throw out your Old El Paso and plan an outing to La Taqueria for some truly tasty tacos. Stay classic with the Asada, or branch out for the pork confit, braised beef cheeks, and beef tongue. Margaritas not provided.

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By: Dawei Ji

This is when it all starts to falls apart. Midterms start. You start to realize that you haven’t been paying attention in class for the last month. You realize that Valentine’s day is coming up and you haven’t made any plans yet.. And all the commitments you set for yourself up in January all come back haunt you. Worst of all, you realize you may not have enough time go to the Gage events that your great RAs and fantastic GRA have planned for you.

Suddenly… you come to obvious conclusion that reading break will be your salvation. But this isn’t true, because nobody actually reads over reading break right?  So what can we do?

There’s really only one solution: If the time doesn’t exist to do all the things you want to do, you need to add more time to your day. But how do we do this without breaking the space-time continuum?

It terms of temporal physics, this is probably impossible. But it terms of your life, this is VERY POSSIBLE. If you stop spending 1 hour of  your day doing something that you doesn’t need to be done, you’ve just added 1 hour to your day. For example: if you stop going on Facebook for 1 hour in a day, you added 1 hour to the day where you can do things that are actually fulfilling, or important.

A cool thing to try is to literally track what you do every hour of every day (like on a spreadsheet or agenda) or if you’re really serious, every minute. You’ll notice that you spend a lot of time doing things are actually pointless and entirely unenjoyable. Every time I’ve done this it’s felt like hours of time have literally be added to my day.

Checking emails or surfing the internet endlessly, going to class but not paying 100% attention (resulting in needing to relearn material), reading internet articles that are temporarily fun but don’t add actual value to your life… these are widespread problems that can be quickly remedied by a conscious awareness that time is added to your day whenever you cut out the unnecessary and inefficient.

After time tracking, you’ll notice that we spend a lot of time procrastinating or thinking about things instead of actually doing them. Stop thinking about your problems and just DO what you need to do. Time passively thinking and passively avoiding a problem is often time that can be added to your day.

About 30 minutes ago I decided to write a blog post about something. I had NO IDEA what I wanted to write about. I was going to passively read some blogs for inspiration BUT knowing the wisdom of what is now this article, I instead just started to actively write. I started with the sentence “this is how it all falls apart”, and now I have an entire article about temporal physics and time management. That’s like 45 minutes saved right there! How amazing is that?

Seriously. It’s so easy. And it works!

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