Medical School: Rejected!
A quick aside: This will be my last post for MyUVic Life. I can’t say thank you enough to all the administrators, editors, and...
Author: James
Personalized Learning: The Future of Education?
Context I recently had the privilege of spending a semester as a teaching assistant in a first-year biology lab. It allowed me the opportunity to...
Solo Travel – A Journey of Self-Discovery
Solo travel is trending! It conjures images of dancing with locals on cobblestone roads as a mariachi band plays you into the sunset. Or...
Reaching Your Fitness Goals in 2017: Lifestyles of the Fit & Healthy (Part 3)
Why not start things off with a rant? Who cares? After all, if you’ve watched the first and second part of a trilogy, you...
Reaching Your Fitness Goals in 2017: Let’s Get Physical! (Part 2)
Wow! Part two of a trilogy (here’s part one). Let’s hope this is more like Lord of the Rings than The Hobbit. Enough chit-chat,...
Reaching Your Fitness Goals in 2017: The Mental Game (Part 1)
It would thrill me to have everyone hit his or her fitness goals. Year after year, I see an influx of people in the...
The Journey of a Padawan to a Jedi Master
Trump vs. Clinton; the quintessential emotional argument against the intellectual one. A behemoth of a blowhard bellows insistently as he tries to permeate the...
Summer on the Organic Blueberry Farm
It was the end of Summer 2015 and I had spent the majority of the summer studying for my second crack at the MCAT...
Top 5 Food Hacks in Gordon Head
I’ve got two philosophies about eating out: value & volume. I want the best food at the best price, and I want a lot...
Top 10 lessons for new students
Listen up, millennials. Class is in session. I’ve assembled a top 10 list of clichés of life lessons which is, judging by the news feeds I get, the only thing anyone reads any more. I know, cynical student blogger; probably the ultimate cliché. But alas, let’s just get this over with so you can get back the enjoying the start of university.
L’amour assassination
A legend was told of a beautiful princess that lived in a palace in the clouds. The journey to reach her was a treacherous...
Fear-based decision making
You’ve decided to hike the West Coast Trail for reading break. A few days in you accidentally sneak up on a black bear and...
Feedback Loops
Why is Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO) still on top? This question fascinates me. Technology is a rapidly changing industry and social media platforms come...
Review: Making a Murderer (somewhat spoiler-free)
I encourage you to check the series out before reading this post. Although I tried my best to include as few spoilers as possible,...
The medicine for holiday monotony
Sometimes you discover a piece of media that is like nothing you’ve ever experienced before. It revolutionizes your cognition, motivates your desires, and redefines...
Limitless Learning
There are two major components of an evaluation: The method and the scale. The method Suppose you want to test speed, and the method...
Why I Dislike Evaluation More Than Anything Else
The one thing I dislike at university more than anything else is evaluation. Most days, I feel like I am a lemming herded onto...
Creating the ideal environment
I proclaim I’m an introvert; therefore, I have trouble being exposed to constant social stimulation. That being said, having positive relationships and being fully...
The 5 most common weight training mistakes
The fitness industry is full of misinformation, but I’m going to try to give you some advice on the basic faux pas I’ve seen...
UVic Survival Guide
Congratulations! You’ve survived the summer and made it to September. Booyah! I know, nobody has said “booyah!” in like 10 years, but maybe it’s...