Author: Leah De Jong
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Push through your own limits
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Sometimes I ask myself why I haven’t done anything, or at least any of the things that I planned to do. I was going…
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The value of teaching
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My professors are smart people. I respect their PhDs and acknowledge the years of work they’ve put in. I accept that their knowledge is…
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Social media: we’re doing it wrong
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A helicopter landed on Alumni field at Wilfrid Laurier University and I had the privilege of prime seating from the third floor science building.…
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Interpreting failure and success
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Failure: lower than 50 per cent on the course, lower than 50 per cent on the final, an inability to complete course assignments, lower…
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Renaissance 2.0
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People move. If there’s one thing to learn from history class it’s that people move en mass from one place to another. Europeans got…
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Write your own story
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Everyone loves a good story. Whether they read a book, watch a movie, see a play or simply hear the tale, stories are everywhere.…
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Bringing games to the real world
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What if life were a video game? A world where the path was clearly marked, ‘leveling up’ resulted in fireworks, respawning was an option…
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Summer jobs pay off
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Despite the snow on the ground and the nip in the air, this is the time to begin looking for summer employment, especially if…
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Re-discovering the wonder of the everyday
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The world is short on wonder. The irony is that the world has never been more full of things to wonder at. In the…
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Bachelor’s degree not for everyone
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Everyone should have the opportunity to go to university, but not everyone should feel they have to. More often than not, a bachelor’s degree…
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