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From balancing your course load to forging relationships with classmates to extracurricular involvement, these are the tried and true methods to nail your career as a student.

One Tip for Handling Your First Month as a University Student
Right now, thousands of students across Canada are settling into new homes and routines as they start their long-awaited first year of university.
By Meag Campbell8 years ago in Education
Special Education in 2017
Today's education for students who have disabilities still has not improved enough to truly help them. Supposedly there are laws in place, but just try to challenge something that is wrong and see if they help you. They don't. All students who have disabilities have a right to privacy. No student should ever be forced into a situation where they are made to feel uncomfortable. How would you feel if your doctor told everyone that you have a disease? Students who have disabilities have advisors that are assigned to help them. The problem is that these advisors really have no authority to correct something if anything goes wrong. There is always a boss of a boss that is higher up than they are, so where does it end when students run into problems with a class? What should be solved in a few days turns into weeks of waiting. When this happens it adversely affects the students who are having problems.
By Lilli Adams8 years ago in Education
Fight for Our Kids' Health
For the last several days, my daughter has come home with tales of her school lunch experiences. She has been in school just over a week and already is afraid she will starve during her school day if she doesn’t take her own lunch. Today, for example, she wasn’t even given enough food to keep her body functioning through PE class. I must admit, this broke my heart.
By Vanessa Cherron Riser8 years ago in Education
Middle School
Ah middle school… It all seems so nostalgic and funny now, really. Playing hopscotch, collecting stickers, and drawing dicks. On every surface in our range. See, people often like to forget that particular detail about childhood, because it doesn’t seem very sweet or innocent. But I could not imagine middle school without the image of my class trying to hold in laughter for dear life. Almost suffocating and hiding behind books as the teacher stares in exasperated shock at the penis drawing on the blackboard. And that’s what I loved about middle school — the lessons. Go on, call me a nerd, I dare you. I was never a teacher’s pet or was THAT kid that reminded about homework, but I was that kid that thrived off of the closeness and unity of class shenanigans. It did not matter if you were a ginger, fat, weirdo, nerd, a cool kid, or a prep. The shenanigans was a thing the whole class was in on.
By Amy Baker8 years ago in Education