Student Life

Whether you love school or hate it, everyone can relate to pre-exam anxiety.

Hair: its colour, length, and style has strings attached when understanding our everyday beauty practices and ideas of attraction.

An advantage of university student life is the ability to meet an array of people with varying interests, dislikes, and priorities. There a lot of ‘character archetypes’ at Queen’s, and with them come positives and negatives.

In the world of online dating, it’s a delight to stumble upon profiles that ignite the spark of laughter, the warmth of joy, and leave the heart longing for more.  

Our beloved campus is filled with all kinds of characters. As I venture to and from classes, I often find myself people watching and observing the masses, mentally categorizing them based on the interactions I’ve had with similarly dressed folks over my four years of undergrad.  

In honour of International Women’s Day this past Wednesday, I gathered a group of responses from the Queen’s student body to spotlight various women who inspire us every day.

If you’re a menstruator under the age of 40, there’s a good chance you use an app to track your period.

Internet lingo rises to prominence and falls into obscurity rapidly. Anyone who has had any exposure to spaces like Twitter, TikTok, or the once-popular Vine, might have noticed this.

It somehow manages to hit you in the face and creep up on you all at once.

I immigrated here with only my parents when I was a couple of years old. They were born and raised in Sri Lanka, and of course, brought those cultural and religious practices into our new household in Canada with us.

When the police have hit every house party and people are tired of getting fined, that’s when you’ll find 80 per cent of Queen’s campus at one of the bars on the strip.

With school starting up fast, many of us experience high stress and feel a pressure to succeed.

The first week of school, Alehouse & Canteen announcing Tuesday country theme nights, and moving back in with your best friends sounds like a recipe for, well, alcohol. With a recipe always comes a remedy, so I present to you: hangover cures.

It’s September already, and while I’d rather be diving off the pier, we’re instead diving headfirst into Orientation Week. 

While venturing around Shoppers Drug Mart the other night, I found myself wandering the store’s magazine section with the 40-year-old moms. Given the pressure to not grab the trashy gossip magazine for fear of judgment, I proudly grabbed a Better Home & Gardens fall recipe magazine, and I’m so happy I did.

After a couple of years at Queen’s, you may look back with regret on your first year, wishing you had known this or that.