Paying for a post-secondary education is super easy, right? As someone with a mountain of disposable income lying on my bedroom floor, paying for rent and living expenses while in I’m in school full-time has never been less stressful. Seriously, though. Every student I know is struggling to balance at least one (thought usually more) […]
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A point of reference
The work of Editor-in-chief of the Other Press is nothing if not full of variety. Some parts of my job remain fairly consistent—like spending my Sundays editing the entire newspaper or keeping the office mini-fridge stocked with whatever variances of Coke people ask for—but the continuously shifting slate of side projects is what keeps the […]
Internet entrapment: commenter beware, you’re in for a snare
I’ve developed a dangerous new habit over the past couple years. I suppose that, at least in comparison to other addictions, mine isn’t overly harmful. It lacks the cancerous agents found in cigarettes, the price tag that comes with being addicted to online shopping, or the liver damage caused by alcoholism. When directly compared to […]
Can I borrow a feeling?
“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery, and loss. Did I listen to pop music because […]
The copy and paste pandemic
Plagiarize: take and use (the thoughts, writings, inventions, etc. of another person) as one’s own. -Oxford Canadian Dictionary I don’t get it. I really don’t. It seems silly that I even have to mention something so evidently wrong and offensively lazy. Even before writing became a serious part of my life, I’d never considered plagiarizing […]
Love thy neighbouring newspaper
“Call me if you need a rescue. We live in the same city.” “I think I live in a different world.” -Almost Famous There are a lot of things I really like about my job: I love the people I get to see, both every Monday and on other days of the week; I get […]
The Surrey School District gets a passing grade (or at least positive feedback)
It seems like whenever education makes headlines in BC, it’s about the incessant amount of crap being shovelled onto our school system. You hear about teachers being legislated back to work or the cost of tuition being too damn high (about $2,300 for three courses? You the best, SFU!), but the first week of classes […]
The Other Press does Edmonton
What better way is there to start off the new year than by missing half of the first week of classes to fly to Alberta? The correct answer is: there is none. By the time you’re reading this, a handful of your favourite Other Press staffers will have made their way to sunny Edmonton, AB […]
The social anxieties of an ‘outgoing person’
If I may, I’d like to start out by dispelling a rumour that’s been floating around about me that’s wildly inaccurate: I haven’t always been, nor do I necessarily identify myself as, an outgoing person. It’s true. And the amount of disagreement I get when I tell people this usually isn’t worth saying something in […]
The write state of mind, the wrong execution
By the time you read this, we’ll have entered the final week of National Novel Writing Month—or for the shortcut artists out there, NaNoWriMo. What started 14 years ago as a way to get people writing has grown to a mammoth event, with over 300,000 participants registered this year alone. The goal of NaNoWriMo is […]
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