Komaniecki aims to inspire confidence in his students. And this starts on day one when, according to class tradition, he will have new students stand up and sing together.
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Beginnings were so structured once.
Today, I feel agnostic. / How do I know He exists?
I wanted desperately to fall into myself like girls in romantic comedies are allowed to, let my hair grow greasy and spoon Ben and Jerry’s into my mouth, openly sob to Norah Jones in the living room. But, most real life women don’t have the time to fall apart completely and cinematically.
When you get an out-of-the-blue invite to a weekend on Vancouver Island’s west coast, what are you supposed to say? Normally, I would say no.
This is my beginning: allowing myself to feel every emotion and make mistakes without being so hard on myself.
What happens when a filmmaker’s goal is to chronicle something specifically due to its absence from their personal experience? How do you capture something you haven’t lived (or remember having lived) first-hand?
By the time Nambuuza moved to Burnaby from Uganda at 16, she had already developed her skills in teaching coding to kids — her passion for computers was ignited at an early age and she said her mother encouraged her to turn this passion into an advocating force bigger than herself.
As writing had “always come fairly easy” to her, Todd began working as an arts and dance journalist. But she wasn’t done there. Through her reading, writing, choreography, dance and marriage to a cognitive scientist, she began thinking more intently about “how the mind works in action,” as she put it.
When Domonic Tomkowicz first started as an engineering student at the UVic, he needed something that would help him get around campus faster than on foot.
With high risk of substance (mis)use in Queer communities and BC’s ongoing toxic drug crisis, Queer youth are left to navigate substance use and recovery on their own.
During the first week of June, I felt a buzzed calm before a wave of lime green shade began to take over clubs and political campaigns alike.
A collection of personal essays from some of The Ubyssey's contributors on summer in India — its comfort, its power, the return to it.
Lindsay Gordon, who served as UBC’s chancellor from 2014 to 2020, passed away on August 26 and is being remembered for his philanthropic contributions.
“Tell me about yourself,” they say.