lectures
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Information overload: how Laurier’s first online semester has been overwhelming students
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We’re only three weeks into the semester and I’m already overwhelmed. I don’t know about you but I’m just about ready to coast. It’s easy to blame these feelings on yourself. It could just be your incessant anxiety, your habits of procrastination or maybe even your binging of cigarettes and soft pretzels. Who knows? But…
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What in collaboration? How to maneuver the dreaded task
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By far, the two scariest words in the English language are “group project.” The excuse I was always given in high school for making these collaborative nightmares mandatory was that it would give us preparation for the “real world” of employment, where we’d have to work with other people to reach a collective goal. That’s…
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Paying attention to an activist behind bars
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One day after U.S. President Donald Trump called for his release, The Venezuelan Supreme Court decided to uphold Leopoldo Lopez’s fourteen-year prison sentence. For those of you who have never heard of him, Leopoldo Lopez is currently being held in a Caracas jail for crimes that he didn’t commit. As a founding member of Venezuela’s…
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