How to Follow Your Dreams and Study Something You Love
INTERVIEW: Angela Xu is going into her third year in a competitive dance program at York University. She spent her childhood and teenage years navigating between Shanghai, China and Toronto, Canada, living in Shanghai for six years and then coming back to Toronto in Grade 11. While pursuing her passion for dance, Angela experienced some pressure from her parents…
5 Tips to Cope with Stress in University
A truism about university seems to be that it’s replete with exam and assignment-ridden stress. I can’t say that’s inaccurate. The number of cappuccinos I gulped down to reduce my stress before my exams in December was essentially limitless. Stress is a real and pressing…
How to WIN the TD Scholarship
INTERVIEW: Sahar Allen, a student who attended Sutherland Secondary School in North Vancouver, received the TD Scholarship for Community Leadership. The TD is one of the largest Canadian scholarships for graduating high school students. The scholarship is valued at $70,000 and includes internship opportunities that give recipients valuable summer work experience. I got the opportunity to ask Sahar…
10 Ways to Save Money in University
If you’re a university student like me, you’ve likely realized that you can’t survive undergrad without spending ridiculous sums of money. But don’t fret. Even though there are enormously high financial costs involved in attending university, there are a few seductively simple and clever ways…
How to WIN the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Scholarship
INTERVIEW: Fredriz Cantilado is a student at the University of Toronto (Scarborough) pursuing a double major in International Development Studies and Health Policy, with a minor in Health Humanities. She is also a winner of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Scholarship. I had the opportunity to interview Fredriz about the scholarship and her experiences with the application process…
How to Start a Business in High School
INTERVIEW: When Yandy Zuo, was in 10th grade at a Toronto high school, she started Thoughtfully Handmade, a business that sells handmade bookmarks and greeting cards. For this post, I had the opportunity to interview Yandy about some of her experiences and tips for students interested in entrepreneurship…
Five Tips to Boost Your GPA
University is about to begin. You may be summoning your courage and excited to embark on the upcoming post-secondary adventure. You may also be trembling with nervousness and feeling uncertain about your academic future. Maybe you killed it in high school. Maybe you fell victim…
How to WIN the Loran Scholarship: Tips from a 2017 Loran Scholar
INTERVIEW: Gwyn Foster, a student from Uxbridge, Ontario, won the Loran Scholarship, one of Canada’s largest and most prestigious scholarships for graduating high school students across the country. The scholarship is valued at $100,000. She is now…
High School vs. University: 5 Things You Need to Know
I just finished my first year of undergrad and can say from experience that university is an enormous jump from Grade 12, especially if you’re moving away from home. Campus life can be warm and familiar, but it can also be intimidating and confusing. To…
How to get into Waterloo Computer Science and U of T Engineering
INTERVIEW: Raina is an incoming third-year student at the University of Waterloo, where she is specializing in Computer Science, a program that has consistently been considered one of the top Computer Science programs in the world. Raina also got into Engineering…