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It’s 5:13 in the afternoon right now. I’m in the library with Tim Hortons and arguably I’m simultaneously surrounded, engulfed and swimming in an orgy of media: Music through my earphones, a textbook on mass communications, and the internet running.
My attention consistently switching between an amazing line of lyrics (”Why are there so many songs [...]

I’m making that terribly premature announcement, but I don’t think I’m going to be wrong. After lamenting that the courses here are SMU-esque, I get into my 6:30pm FILM240 class and receive the course outline: 95% exams, 5% participation. Say what? I haven’t had an exam worth more than 40% since.. ever!
The class (taught by [...]

If it’s not readily apparent by all the blog posts, pictures and videos I’ve been sharing, I love Queen’s and I love Kingston. But like Terence, Queen’s is turning out to be uncannily like SMU! From the class participation to the almost-weekly deadlines to the group work to people studying in the library from the [...]

Well okay they don’t call it “Vivace” here, but I don’t know what they call it, so I’ll use the SMU term for it. For those not from SMU, Vivace is our annual “fair” held for all of the clubs and societies in school to tout their wares and lure unsuspecting freshmen to their clubs.
Honestly, [...]

I was at the Future Generation (aka student) track of ad:tech yesterday and I was really disappointed (almost disgusted) by the lack of professionalism in the crowd. About 140 students from the universities and polytechnics, and no one knows how to state their name and affiliation before asking a question?
I actually asked a question and [...]

Today I headed back to the wonderful MTV offices to pass a photo for the upcoming MTV Asia Awards, and everyone I met thought I looked weird in formal.
Same thing happened a few weeks ago when I headed down to SMU to collect my (broken) laptop. I walked past three friends and one professor and [...]

I haven’t really talked about this so far, but I’m heading up to Queens University in Kingston, Ontario on August 24th for exchange. I originally wanted to leave on the 22nd of August so I could celebrate my birthday here, and then land on the 22nd and celebrate it again, but oh well, no seats.
So [...]

I’ve noticed a jump in blog traffic to my blog posts regarding SMU “Are You Sure You Want To Come To SMU? Think Carefully” and “At Least One Professor Thinks SMU Has Lost The Plot Too“. I suppose it’s because now’s the time when people are getting their acceptance to one or more universities and [...]

I stumbled upon Rachel’s blog yesterday where she mentions the gist of what a professor said in class:
Two weeks ago, my Comms professor gave a farewell speech to commemorate the end of the module. In his speech, he shared with us what the seniors thought of us. To paraphrase what he said - you freshmen [...]

Wow that last post attracted a lot of attention. I don’t want anyone to get the wrong impression that I hate SMU. I give recruitment talks at CJC for goodness sake. I’m just really annoyed with the way things are going right now.
I just want to share with you a few follow-up conversations that have [...]