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Your Arts degree is more valuable than you think
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Choosing a career path is hard. Our own desires tend to conflict with what we are told by our families, friends and the messages around us. From the ages of eight to 18, I went through the following career obsessions: Writer, veterinarian, writer, photographer, actor, writer. You can see the common theme. Although I was…
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What can you do with an arts degree?
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What the hell do you do with an arts degree? It’s a fair question to ask and I’m sure all arts majors have pondered such an open-ended worry. There is a lot of worry and assumptions made by those graduating with an arts degree. Just about everyone and their mother assumes an English major’s one…
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Arts Undergraduate Society’s presidential elections come to a close
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Starting on Monday, Feb. 11, Wednesday, Feb. 13 was the final day of voting for the Arts Undergraduate Society’s (AUS) presidential election period. The two candidates this year are Alex Hermosa, who will be going into his third year, as well as Jenny Nguyen, who will be going into her fifth year. The current…
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Unsigned: Handshakes and cultural greetings are overcomplicated
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The idea behind shaking hands is all a social construct. You think your firm grip asserts dominance and makes you seem powerful. All it really does is make someone else’s hand hurt. It’s all in the culture of your area. Some places kiss cheeks, others shake hands. There’s no one universal way to greet another…
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Arts under fire
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There has never been a worse time than our own to be an arts student, but not for the reason you’d expect. Ask some arts students and they’ll probably say their greatest problem is securing a job. No big surprise there. The starving artist is an enduring cultural fiction, personified in literary figures like James…
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Unexpected reactions to Horror Show Collective’s Scary Movie Challenge
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When I think of scary movies, the first thing that comes to mind is horror, fake blood and graphic scenes with nothing real about them. On October 27, The Scary Movie Challenge, hosted by the Horror Show Collective was held at the Princess Cinemas in uptown Waterloo. The movie that was being showed was kept…
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