Summer semester is here, and while I’m sure there are many important and interesting things to study for your classes, I would also like to challenge you with some extra-curricular life assignments for the month of May. Why? At the risk of sounding like Drake, you only live once. Stay up all night, but not [...]
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That’s a wrap!
We did it. If you’re reading this, then two things are true: 1) you probably are taking a much-needed break from cramming for exams and 2) we’ve managed to churn out another year’s worth of The Other Press. While we still publish a few very special summer issues, today’s issue is as nostalgic for me [...]
You are not alone
I’ll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour. I’ll be there for you, like I’ve been there before. I’ll be there for you, cause you’re there for me too. -The Rembrants (and, ‘Friends’) Sometimes, life is really fucking hard. Like the time I set out for a trip to the store to [...]
Hug me
Hello readers. Never one to miss a self-serving holiday, I wanted to remind everyone of my favourite day of the year: April 4—otherwise known as “Hug a Newsman Day.” Few people know of this relatively-obscure (and politically incorrect—call it “Hug a Newsperson Day,” for propriety’s sake) holiday, and I think that’s a shame. After all, [...]
Warm up
As of March 20, winter is officially over and spring is here. Spring is by far my favourite season of the year because it’s the most confident. Sure, summer’s hot, but the pressure for summer lovin’ gives me humid, sweaty anxiety. Autumn is pretty and full of pumpkin spice—but it also abruptly forces you back [...]
I can’t quit you, Veronica
If all good things must come to an end, are they still good if they come back long after they’re over? My friends are always harping on me to stop dwelling in the past and to look to the future, but I can’t help but look back on things that made me happy before and [...]
Some things never change
(Though almost everything does) I recently had the chance to swap stories with two former editors in chief of The Other Press. As could be expected, the discussion eventually turned towards varying stories of woe, success, and intrigue had while at the helm of this paper over the years—and I couldn’t help but notice that [...]
To this day:
Will bullying ever go away? Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. I, like millions of others, was bullied as a kid. I mean, of course I was: I was a pudgy little girl, growing up with an ambiguous race in a predominately-white, middle-class community. People made fun of [...]
Hacked!
You may have noticed that theotherpress.ca is down. No, it’s not an early April Fool’s prank—over the reading break, our website was hacked. One of the most frustrating things about being hacked is that it seems so pointless—from what we’ve been able to determine, our website was taken over by some anonymous hacker looking to [...]
This is not a love story
Seeing as this issue is the last before that glorious pink-and-red day of extreme emotional turmoil—otherwise known as Valentine’s Day—there’s no better time than the present to talk about the L word. While the concept of love is probably too complex to cover in its entirety in a few hundred words, I do have some [...]
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