You have no excuse for saying you're too busy because they will be there for the whole day. Unless you have classes straight from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. or have a fear of blood or needles (totally understandable), try to make an effort to show up!
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Reportedly hanging there for months, only a few observant procrastinating students have spotted him and successfully stayed mum, preventing the entire campus population from stampeding across campus to pay homage and worship to this pure entity.
There’s no point in denying it — UBC is a massive school with an abundance of clubs, social and sporting events, parties, job opportunities and more. It can be overwhelming at times trying to keep up with all that UBC has to offer.
Practice your surprised face when all of your family, relatives and old classmates greet you at the airport with a large banner and balloons. You can’t let them know that this has been a recurrent daydream of yours since the second day of classes.
The event’s main goal is to raise awareness for the United Way while having fun. The race will take place in the Student Rec Centre at 12 p.m. All the pancakes, aprons and pans will be provided for the race and costumes are encouraged.
Did you see a fancy red car with a camera rigged to the hood on campus today? Did you stand and stare at it as you waited for a stunt driver to press the pedal to the medal? Yeah, me neither. William will be on campus filming for the next four days.
If you do somehow manage to avoid the awkward coughing fit in a silent 300-person lecture or the sneeze-fest that UBC becomes once the midway mark of September hits, just know that you are some sort of power-tripping specimen that deserves a medal.
A known fact about the Bookstore is that its prices are bigger than anything else on campus. Whispers of lower prices and better products in the dark underbelly of the retail community have always been discounted as rumours, but they aren’t.
Therapy dogs came to UBC last week! We got to catch up with some of them after the session. They offered superb advice such as, “It’s better to have sniffed a thousand doggy butts than to have never sniffed any doggy butts at all.”
Our feature this week revolved around the recent completion of Brock Commons. Clearly we are all serious, hard-hitting journalists. We thought that these rejected headlines were too good to be forgotten.
Thou shalt not poo adjacent to an occupied stall. Thou shalt not poo when the minute hand is between 50 and 59. Thou shalt not poo in the Pharmaceutical Sciences building because they already have enough to handle without your mess.
Selling new/gently used clothing is one of the easiest and quickest ways to make money. Campus life makes it even easier than before, so you don’t have to lug your clothes in garbage bags to a consignment store.
If you encounter a first-year on campus or in your class, stop what you are doing and evaluate the situation carefully. Identify yourself — you are a fourth-year and this is an elective you are taking. Speak in a calm and confident manner.
As such — and as a connoisseur in really really really wanting, but not being able to, cuddle your dog because they are a billion miles away — I’ve written up a handy dandy “How to,” complete with everything you need to cope.
Sometimes the hardest but the most effective thing you can do is just saying, “hi.” Introduce yourself to someone sitting next to you in class or in the library. You never know how long a little bravery will take you. Just give it a shot!